Raptor05121 Posted March 26, 2017 Report Posted March 26, 2017 On 3/22/2017 at 9:57 PM, Godfather said: On long trips pushing a 40 knot headwind I'm just thankful to be flying a Mooney. Nothing worse than flying a 172 with great downward visibility and watching the car traffic pass you by. I flew a 152 to Tallahassee once. 80 miles. By car, takes about 1hr, 15 mins (cruise set 80-85mph on I-10). The fastest I've ever made the trip is 52 minutes at about 1am doing 90mph the whole way for a family emergency. That one day, we had a ~20kt headwind, our groundspeed was ~55kts, WOT 2400rpm. Including the vectoring around KTLH approach, it took us about two hours from startup to shutdown. What a pain in the rear. Quote
Hank Posted March 26, 2017 Report Posted March 26, 2017 (edited) Dp Edited March 26, 2017 by Hank Quote
Hank Posted March 26, 2017 Report Posted March 26, 2017 8 hours ago, Jim Peace said: 767-300 someplace over the North Pacific..... I remember having over 700 knots GS at times in my travels....could not tell you when or where....also have a picture of minus 75 degrees at altitude....surprisingly it was over the equator. The coldest temps I have ever seen aloft have been over the equator and the warmest have been northern latitudes. But the experts who write the books about polar ops keep telling me that fuel freezing on polar routes is a problem....they should get out more...... I just flew ATL-FRA and back. The outbound flight detoured a little further north to avoid the nor'easter burying New England. As we were going over the southern tip of Greenland, the reported OAT was -80°F, with a 176 mph tailwind. Quote
Hank Posted March 26, 2017 Report Posted March 26, 2017 (edited) Dp too . . . . Edited March 26, 2017 by Hank Quote
bonal Posted March 26, 2017 Report Posted March 26, 2017 Headwinds were how I ended up with a Mooney. Flying home from Camarillo in the 150 my wife fell asleep with Napa just ahead she woke up a good bit later and Napa was just barely behind and said we need a faster plane. Music to any pilots ears. There were times the traffic below was faster but still total time was less because you still fly a straight coarse. With the Mooney I don't think I've ever seen ground speed below 130mph Quote
SpeedyJoe Posted March 26, 2017 Report Posted March 26, 2017 70kts headwinds flying up the San Joaquin Valley after Thanksgiving last year. With my Ovation I still got home, with the club's C172 I wouldn't have launched. Quote
aviatoreb Posted March 27, 2017 Report Posted March 27, 2017 (edited) 45 minutes ago, SpeedyJoe said: 70kts headwinds flying up the San Joaquin Valley after Thanksgiving last year. With my Ovation I still got home, with the club's C172 I wouldn't have launched. My first solo cross country once upon a time as a student pilot was to kbtv in an alarus ch2t if I remember that correctly but anyway it could fly 95 in cruise all out or 90 more co sefvatively. I remember it taking over 2 hours to fly back in strong winds - it takes 25 min in my current airplane. Edited March 27, 2017 by aviatoreb Quote
75_M20F Posted March 28, 2017 Report Posted March 28, 2017 I too have had 700 + Knots GS crossing the Pacific at night in the B747 back when I was on it. Thanks for the temperature information, I'm always interested in real world experience. Quote
kerry Posted March 28, 2017 Report Posted March 28, 2017 Seems like 75% of the time I fly I have a head wind. Quote
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