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Old 19th January 2004 | 22:41
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Flap Sup
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During IR training in N.Norway

Had performed a missed app and was climbing in a strong headwind, increasing with altitude. Had to get to FL80 because of terrain and mountain waves, so it was a long climb in a PA28.
Reduced to Vx as we was overhead a VOR/DME, just for fun to see how low our groundspeed could get. For about five minutes, the DME groundspeed read 0 to 0.5, every now and then the distance to DME station decreased due to the mountain waves.

ATC: "Spirit xxx, do you have fuel enough to reach your dest with your present speed?"

made me laugh

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