Ground Speed Challenge

[skyking]

DaV8or...now thats funny. I have a real nice plane but a ratty looking panel too....

[donshapansky]

This was a trip last year from Eugene, OR home to Texas, it was a total fluke that the GS readout matches the Model 252 which is also the registered ident for my Rocket.

My best number was this year a month ago at 15K the Garmin showed 264 - 267 KTS from Abilene home to Bourland, that descent is still shown as the peak speed in the Garmin at 278 KTS

 

 

 

Don

[Cruiser]

I flew from Fredrick (FDK) to Morgantown (MGW) over the Appalacians today. Forecast was strong westery winds with moderate turbluence below 8,000. As I approached the foothills you could see the mountain waves. I was WOTx2500 @ 6000' showing 157 kts indicated. At one point my ground speed was 78kts. ! That is a 79kt. HEADWIND.

I am really glad I have a Mooney. Many other planes would not have made the trip today.

[The-sky-captain]

Quote: Cruiser

I flew from Fredrick (FDK) to Morgantown (MGW) over the Appalacians today. Forecast was strong westery winds with moderate turbluence below 8,000. As I approached the foothills you could see the mountain waves. I was WOTx2500 @ 6000' showing 157 kts indicated. At one point my ground speed was 78kts. ! That is a 79kt. HEADWIND.

I am really glad I have a Mooney. Many other planes would not have made the trip today.

[fantom]

Glad to see you joined us, Don. That is one beautiful Rocket/252.

The best GS I've ever seen in my J, was years ago, at 11,000 ft, over the Gulf, headed to Ft. Lauderale. 235 kts.

There were four planes coming back from New Orleans, and a 231 at 17,000 ft was "only" getting 240 kts.

 

[Earl]

Can't beat some of the numbers but look at my 430 pix showing a ground speed of 208 kts.  Flying from Houston to Atlanta today at 15,000 feet and 70% power in a 1986 252.  3 hours 21 minutes in the air which is not bad.

[THASE]

My Mooney M20J    201kts

[RJBrown]

Today's flight from Phoenix (IWA) to Denver (APA) was unreal.

The preflight weather showed tailwinds in excess of 55 knots directly along my course.

The flight out on Friday the wind was the same direction but only 25-30 on the nose.

This picture was in LEVEL flight autopilot engaged, Heading and Altitude.

232 knot on 8.5 GPH Only in a Mooney

, with a tailwind

[flight2000]

I hit 190kts on the trip back from Hutchison, KS to Sherman AAF on Saturday.  We flew up for dinner and the local crowd was amazed we flew in with the winds being 16026G32.  Piece of cake landing since it was on 17.  Shortest distance to stop I've had in awhile, almost as soon as I hit the ground...

I was level at 9000 WOT/2500 RPM when my buddy snapped this one at 187kts.  We raced a Cirrus SR22 G2 back and landed about 2 minutes behind him.  He had slightly better winds at 7000, but we flew the same route back.  I left first and went up to 9000, while he left 5 minutes behind us.  We had to be driving the controller nuts because we were almost stacked perfectly the entire flight.  He has the traffic system so he could see me on the screen but couldn't find me in the air.

Brian

[Jeff_S]

Quote: RJBrown

Today's flight from Phoenix (IWA) to Denver (APA) was unreal.

The preflight weather showed tailwinds in excess of 55 knots directly along my course.

The flight out on Friday the wind was the same direction but only 25-30 on the nose.

This picture was in LEVEL flight autopilot engaged, Heading and Altitude.

232 knot on 8.5 GPH Only in a Mooney

, with a tailwind

[The-sky-captain]

Quote: flight2000

I hit 190kts on the trip back from Hutchison, KS to Sherman AAF on Saturday. 

[RJBrown]

Yes I went direct.

Going out I stayed as low as possible into the winds.

On the way back we got up to 16500, the MEA.

On a flight like this I miss my Rocket. With it we would have been above the bumps and could have seen 300 with those winds.

 

[flhelo]

No proof, but last winter on a flight from MAI to ZPH @ 5500 and 25 squared, I had a ground speed of 173. Hoping to bump 175 but got to destination to fast!!!!!  Good winds from out of the north. But when I had to due the return trip I thought that it would take forever>

[flhelo]

No proof, but last winter on a flight from MAI to ZPH @ 5500 and 25 squared, I had a ground speed of 173. Hoping to bump 175 but got to destination to fast!!!!!  Good winds from out of the north. But when I had to due the return trip I thought that it would take forever>

[conom06d]

I got a piper arrow to 1kt gs and then to 223kts gs which is pretty fast for it. I also held at one time the 2nd fastest gs for a 172 i believe at 198 knots haha (last time i checked a few years ago).

 

 

EDIT: just looked on that site and found If I had taken a picture of that arrow II flight, I could have held that record haha

[roundout]

Looks like I'm in the lead for Mooney anyway. Later reached as high as 337 but my phone ran out of batteries and I wasn't carrying a camera. ADS-FXE in 3+48. I wish we'd have filled out the paperwork, I'm sure it would have set a record. Oh well. 

[Skywarrior]

Mooneyland.com has a photo of a 401kt GS in a Mooney.

[DaV8or]

Quote: Skywarrior

Mooneyland.com has a photo of a 401kt GS in a Mooney.

[Mcstealth]

Quote: DaV8or

Wow! Must have been an Acclaim with a big tailwind.

[jlunseth]

Not a record, but not a bad cruise speed at under 13 gph either.  Bismarck to FCM (Minneapolis) in about 1:40.  And this was cruise, not descent, descent was a wild ride.  We hit about 250. The thing about descending at those speeds from the flight levels is that you have to start so far out.  Somewhere between 75 and 100 miles out. 

[rbridges]

we need to keep it fair.  you guys with the e and f models have an advantage (not to mention the J models and newer)  lol

[jlunseth]

I'm a K 231 which makes it even worse.  I get to go up to the Flight Levels where you can practially shut your engine off and go that fast West to East.

You must be a C.  We will spot you 2 knots.  Those things may be old, but faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, etc.

[Hank]

And I was happy last Friday, southbound towards Charlotte, when my C hit 183 knots . . . The trip to EQY was 1.6 hours and 15.1 gallons. No complaints at all!

Maybe us carb guys should start our own thread?

[rbridges]

Quote: jlunseth

I'm a K 231 which makes it even worse.  I get to go up to the Flight Levels where you can practially shut your engine off and go that fast West to East.

You must be a C.  We will spot you 2 knots.  Those things may be old, but faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, etc.

[jlunseth]

No, you guys aren't going to pull that one.  I have seen how fast you can go.  I typed two.  I meant two.  You can have two.  OK, three, but that's it.