I could be the most unskilled pilot out there and If I made good decisions I would never put an airplane at risk. That includes choosing how and where to tie down an airplane, and when to move it out of a bad situation. High on the list of decision making assets is local knowledge. That’s why employers and insurers place a high premium on Alaska time even though alaska time is no guarantee of good decision making.
Some places in Alaska the big winds always come from the same direction. Other places as the low passes the wind shifts all the way around the compass rose. This Thread brings back memories of one storm out west where another member here and I spent the night moving our cubs into the wind. By morning our two cubs were the only ones on the field without our wings lying on the ground, including the guys that used the two by four method of lift strut protection.
In other places moving my airplane out from being downwind of under secured airplanes saved my bacon several times. I did that in anticipation of weather events. Couldn’t have moved once they started.
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