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Went backwards in a C150 once. 
Forced landing practice and turned final into a 70kt headwind (as we later found out).
Read later of a Tiger Moth pilot in the 30's being pushed backwards in cruise in the same area.
Forced landing practice and turned final into a 70kt headwind (as we later found out).
Read later of a Tiger Moth pilot in the 30's being pushed backwards in cruise in the same area.
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Have a (close to) zero airspeed at the top of a stall turn or actual zero airspeed at the top of a tailslide in the Pitts regularly...just don't have a hand free to take a photo!!
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Peter Ensor told of flying his Auster into a very strong Nor' Wester to Double Hill Station which he farmed. He looked down and saw that he was over a friends farm ... a few minutes later he looked out and nothing had changed - except he thought he had gone back a bit nearer to Christchurch.
"How slow can you go? "
OK, OK! I admit defeat! B*gger it GB!
20"/2500 rpm at 10,000' - 10 degrees flap - wheels up - deck angle straight out of the Space Shuttle at blast off - I could just get it to 40 kt IAS (which is as low as the ASI in the FTDK goes) before my world kinda fell apart!
Sorry, no piccies! I just could not maintain equilibrium and work the camera at the same time!
Jabaaaaaa, where the hell are you when I need you?
Now if I was a devious sort of person, I might have landed and taped over the ASI. Had I done that I might have discovered that with the ASI taped up on the ground with multiple layers of electricians tape - somehow, instead of reading 0 kts as one might have expected, it might read about 60 kts once the engine was started and sat on 60 kts the whole bloody time. Of course nobody would deliberately take-off in an aeroplane with the ASI taped over, so I am only speculating here as to what might happen in the FTDK if one were to do so!
Conclusion? Cessna fit crappy under-reading (at the bottom end of the scale anyway!) ASIs to their aeroplanes! I suspect the same ASI's over-read at the top end of the scale!
Dr
OK, OK! I admit defeat! B*gger it GB!
20"/2500 rpm at 10,000' - 10 degrees flap - wheels up - deck angle straight out of the Space Shuttle at blast off - I could just get it to 40 kt IAS (which is as low as the ASI in the FTDK goes) before my world kinda fell apart!
Sorry, no piccies! I just could not maintain equilibrium and work the camera at the same time!
Jabaaaaaa, where the hell are you when I need you?
Now if I was a devious sort of person, I might have landed and taped over the ASI. Had I done that I might have discovered that with the ASI taped up on the ground with multiple layers of electricians tape - somehow, instead of reading 0 kts as one might have expected, it might read about 60 kts once the engine was started and sat on 60 kts the whole bloody time. Of course nobody would deliberately take-off in an aeroplane with the ASI taped over, so I am only speculating here as to what might happen in the FTDK if one were to do so!
Conclusion? Cessna fit crappy under-reading (at the bottom end of the scale anyway!) ASIs to their aeroplanes! I suspect the same ASI's over-read at the top end of the scale!
Dr
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Some time ago now when the CB fires where out of control I was tasked to fly to YMER from YMEN. So off we went..............climbing at max rate of clb to try to get on top of the high lvl cloud I managed to maintain FL330. (cabin 10000ft) I was just clear of the smoke/cloud drifting down from CB. On decent into YMER I pegged the ASI right up to the barbers pole & observed a GS of 426 kts (jetstream wind 150+ kts) .............not too shabby for an old B200 !
Trouble is ya get nufin' for nufin' !....homeward bound at FL120 lucky to get 165 kts
. Anything less than 200 kts is real sad !
Used to own VH-DVK once (C150H) & had her stationary over Ricketts Point (in Vic). at about 1500 ft. watched the cars on the hwy slowly dissapear ahead of me !!
Best ever achieveable speed for me.............660kts, AD-ML, LR35, about 40 mins chock to chock if I can recall !
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Trouble is ya get nufin' for nufin' !....homeward bound at FL120 lucky to get 165 kts
. Anything less than 200 kts is real sad !Used to own VH-DVK once (C150H) & had her stationary over Ricketts Point (in Vic). at about 1500 ft. watched the cars on the hwy slowly dissapear ahead of me !!
Best ever achieveable speed for me.............660kts, AD-ML, LR35, about 40 mins chock to chock if I can recall !
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For some speed records have a look here http://www.groundspeedrecords.com/da...commercial.htm
remember having a Pilatus Porter back at about 35Kts level one day - still had more grunt to go. Every young man needs a ute --- that was mine!
remember having a Pilatus Porter back at about 35Kts level one day - still had more grunt to go. Every young man needs a ute --- that was mine!
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We need photos Blogsey
Transiting across the Atlantic in a P-3. 150kt headwind. Had to drop a fair bit (all) flaps, G/S readout 19kts. ATC "Yep, you pretty much just stopped there".
