ABikerSailor
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- Aug 26, 2008
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I know that trump refused to show up and blamed it on the rain.It was not too severe to travel by car. If it was for golf, trump would rough a drizzle. But not to honor our fallen military. He likes soldiers who live.
Dude. GIVE IT UP. You lib fools are jumping all over the place to hide from the fact that you don't know shit about what was going on, and are just saying whatever shit lets you attack your enemies.
Like I said, if it were for golf, he would have made the effort to show up.
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Funny, you leftards haven't shown any pictures of how light the rain was on that day.
Reeeeeaaaaaal, funny.
Actually, here is a link that tells you what the actual conditions were on that day, as told to you by a licensed pilot..........................
Can Trump's Helicopter, Marine One, Fly in the Rain? - The Atlantic
I am not going to bother to decode this all. (Being able to read METARs is part of ground school in the learning-to-fly process.) But here are the essentials:
- On Saturday morning, the weather in Paris was rainy and overcast—bad weather, but not any exceptional aeronautical challenge. The worst conditions during the day in Paris were at noon, when there was an overcast ceiling of 600 feet. (“101100Z 19011KT 2700 -RA BR OVC006.” The -RA means “light rain.” The BR means “mist,” and the mnemonic for remembering it is “Baby Rain.”) As a benchmark: To get an instrument rating, whether in an airplane or a helicopter, you have to show the ability to fly an approach “to minimums,” which (depending on the airport and the approach system) can be as low as 200 to 300 feet. Still, on Saturday morning, a helicopter trip from Paris would probably have meant spending part of the time in the clouds.
- The temperature in Paris through the morning was 11 to 12 degrees Centigrade, or the low 50s Fahrenheit. That is not very cold. The normal “lapse rate” for air temperature is about 2 degrees Centigrade colder for each thousand feet you go up. In normal circumstances, that would mean the freezing level was at an altitude of around 6,000 feet. (To spell it out: 12 degrees Centigrade at ground level, minus 2 degrees for each thousand feet, means that you reach 0 degrees Centigrade around 6,000 feet up.) So at an altitude of 3,000 or 4,000 feet, this would not be an icing-peril scenario.
- It was not very windy. Through the morning, the wind was reported at 11 or 12 knots—not enough to worry about.
The pilot said that there would have been zero problems with Marine 1 flying in the light rain.
Sorry, never heard of him. Is there any reason I should trust this guy?
Well, if you read the whole link, he gives you his credentials as a pilot. He then shows the actual METARS data from that area and date, and then deciphers it for you. Yeah, if a person can show decent credentials that would say they know what they are talking about, I'll believe them, at least, until I catch them lying to me.