BillD22 Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 Check out the RW headwind and resulting groundspeed in the lower left corner of our Vision Jet PFD. This could be some kind of jet record for slow ground speed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger1962 Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 138kt Headwind! It's a wonder the little SF50 isn't just hovering! Tim Wright "The older I get, the better I was..." Xbox Series X, Asus Prime H510M-K, Intel Core i5-11400F 4.40GHz, 16Gb DDR4 3200, 2TB WD Black NVME SSD, 1TB Samsung SATA SSD NVidia RTX3060 Ti 8Gb, Logitech Flight Yoke System, CH Pro Pedals, Acer K272HL 27", Windows 11 Home x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 You burning a ton of fuel I can tell you that!! Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillD22 Posted January 27, 2023 Author Share Posted January 27, 2023 Here's a real world map of today's jetstream at about the time we were flying from Charlotte NC to New Orleans and leveling off at FL310 doing 83 knots GS. Groundspeed climbed to a whopping 173 after that. Mardi Gras will be over before we there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger1962 Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 I was at Charlotte NC in April 1989 just as the Nicaragua 'situation' was kicking off - I've never seen so many Galaxy's in one place before or since - and Short Skyvan's taxying all over the place in front of the passenger terminal and taking off on the apron in all directions... How our Piedmont connecting flight to Florida made it through that, I've no idea! Tim Wright "The older I get, the better I was..." Xbox Series X, Asus Prime H510M-K, Intel Core i5-11400F 4.40GHz, 16Gb DDR4 3200, 2TB WD Black NVME SSD, 1TB Samsung SATA SSD NVidia RTX3060 Ti 8Gb, Logitech Flight Yoke System, CH Pro Pedals, Acer K272HL 27", Windows 11 Home x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhrogPhlyer Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 1 hour ago, BillD22 said: leveling off at FL310 doing 83 knots GS. Just think how fast the return will be! Always Aviate, then Navigate, then Communicate. And never be low on Fuel, Altitude, Airspeed, or Ideas. Laptop, Intel Core i7 CPU 1.80GHz 2.30 GHz, 8GB RAM, 64-bit, NVIDIA GeoForce MX 130, Extra large coffee-black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NMLW Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 At 83 KTS there is no chance you will break the sound barrier. Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhrogPhlyer Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 49 minutes ago, NMLW said: sound barrier I wanted to go into the GS/AS vs Mach lecture, but that would just be way to boring without more coffee. Sounds like the basis of a brief article to publish here at a later date? Always Aviate, then Navigate, then Communicate. And never be low on Fuel, Altitude, Airspeed, or Ideas. Laptop, Intel Core i7 CPU 1.80GHz 2.30 GHz, 8GB RAM, 64-bit, NVIDIA GeoForce MX 130, Extra large coffee-black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 22 hours ago, PhrogPhlyer said: Just think how fast the return will be! I guess Bill will doing the Boot Scoot Boogey on the return trip! Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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