How would you react to this TAF

Take a C152 and make a vertical takeoff, then a backward flight

172driver wrote:

VRB80G200KT

Wow! Good time to practice hovering skills. In fixed wing…
Or not? :)

That would see me on my way to the Field to add extra Tie-downs.

Hopfully a proper tie-down not 10kg weights under each wing (I am still puzzled how that prevents 1T aircrafts with 50kts stall speeds from moving on 35kts winds?)

Anyway good luck to people over there as they would have to run for other stuff than the tie-down of an aircraft…

There does not seem to be metreports from the airport for the last couple of days.

Seriously ?
https://twitter.com/kionnemcghee/status/1168540276949954560?s=21
Lots of folks lose everything they have, even their life.

I have been so busy that I haven’t seen any news.
That’s horrific. I really feel for these people.
We have it very easy in most parts of Europe.
Even with big floods, we never get close to that level of devatation.

I’ve always hoped that if I was over there (in the 172 from the west coast) when of these things rolled in, I’d have time to fly away. Failing that, I’d seek cover in the FBO’s hangar and check my insurance policy. No tie down’s going to cope with that, or anything like it. I tie my Warrior down in UK for 35kt, subject to much giggling from the clubhouse. I’d rather write on the claim form how it was the other aircraft that blew into mine…

Aveling wrote:

I tie my Warrior down in UK for 35kt, subject to much giggling from the clubhouse

I don’t understand the lack of tiedowns in the UK, or the practise of tying 10kg lumps of concrete to the tiedown rings (planes have taken off with these things still attached to the tail – a wing that’s designed to make over a metric tonne of lift isn’t going to be stopped by a small cast lump of cement). Thunderstorms with strong outflow can and do happen in the UK, and they can easily move a plane or put one on its back.