Why was JFK so gusty on Sunday? Sometimes my ego gets the best of me when flying (I don’t have an ego in real life only in the simulator when fighting Mother Nature). The outcome of this landing was a bit hectic and it was so embarrassing letting my horrible touchdown unfold in front if this China Cargo B777F. I bounced twice before slamming it at the end of the touchdown zone at around 125 knots IAS. From the top of my head the METAR was saying the winds were around 25 knots gusting 40 knots.
Here in the UK we’re going through Storm Bert (it’s not even a proper storm where I am it’s just patches of heavy rain for a bit with some wind and it goes after a few mins and comes back again) but when I took off from EGCC it wasn’t that bad. KJFK was worse.
It was the tail end of a normal nor Easter. Btw, your talking to the ceo of the infinite flights best and only meteorology VO. Of course I heard about Bert, a few weeks ago I started looking at it on radar lol.
