First time tower - multiple questions

TomG2 wrote:
You can always tell a fake expert when they resort to calling other people "Stupid" or "Dumb". Some might question how many travel trailers actually take flight when going down the freeway. "gets airborne at the stern due to wind forces building (unable to escape)." I have seen a lot of trailers on the highway, but none became airborne from the lift involved at ordinary speeds.

When it comes to undocumented claims about mileage etc. I have one too. Our 1951 Nash Statesman got 34 mpg since it had an overdrive transmission.

The tests are simple. Why haven’t you performed them?
“Dumb” means incapable of speaking. Shoe fit?

Nature’s winds are one form of the problem. Traffic passing too closely is the other.
Install a roll cage and whatever else you think appropriate and I’ll overtake you in a tractor-trailer rig to pass far too closely and watch you roll over in my mirrors.

Or have another rig follow me too closely (illegally) on a two-lane in the opposing direction. High-speed instantaneous wind direction reversals. An even uglier wreck.

That you haven’t seen it mightn’t mean much. I’ve seen it several dozen times. YouTube videos are available. RV or tractor-trailer.

The greatest vulnerability to winds is downslope on a mountain. What spacing do you maintain and at what speed? As you’ll need to accelerate using MAXIMUM engine throttle & MAXIMUM trailer brake together to have any hope of recovery.

Stick with being thought dumb versus undeniable testimony.
Ordinary ignorance has a cure. Willful ignorance doesn’t.

At 45-mph on level ground does your combined rig come to a complete stop faster than the tow vehicle, solo, (otherwise both loaded for camping with pax aboard?)

Why not?

The engineering prediction is for the combined rig.

Get the numbers. Test. Adjust.

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