When the wind blows!!

Postby **Harold R** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:55 pm

Don't see this very often. I think my watch started to run backwards. This was not far from George Willers place. :lol:

Bottom left corner of the screen is a wind direction/speed readout.
http://home.jam.rr.com/hroberts/Windy.jpg

Postby **Patbretagne** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:38 am

is that the 286 figure, and if so is that KM or Miles per hour? Either, and there wouldn't be much of anywhere left! Hope Geouge is OK
Pat

Postby **Harold R** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:47 am

Pat.....the first number is direction, 286 degrees means the wind was for all practical purposes....from the west. The velocity was 193 knots per hour. Just say better than 200 mph. I'm sure George barely felt it. It was about 7 miles above his house...in the Jet Stream. KTOL is Toledo, Ohio. If I remember George lives about 10 or 15 miles east of Toledo.

Postby **Cub-Bud** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:56 am

Why were you flying over George's :?:

Does Bigdog know about this :?:

Those arrows are pointing you in the right direction and those numbers are hits from the locator beacon, aren't they HR :?:

Postby **Harold R** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:16 am

In my best German accent........I know nothing!! :lol:

Postby **George Willer** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:45 am

Harold,

I'm not familiar with that display, since nearly all my flying was with needle/ball & airspeed and occasionally with a venturi driven AH. If I read it right, from that position if you'd turn right about 35 degrees for 45 miles, you'd be here in nothing flat!

That puppy is scootin! Aren't tail winds great? Too bad they don't last as long as headwinds.

Postby **Patbretagne** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:19 am

George Willer wrote:Harold,

I'm not familiar with that display, since nearly all my flying was with needle/ball & airspeed and occasionally with a venturi driven AH. If I read it right, from that position if you'd turn right about 35 degrees for 45 miles, you'd be here in nothing flat! That puppy is scootin! Aren't tail winds great? Too bad they don't last as long as headwinds.

Ah George so you are a "Seat of the Pants" flyer? Have you still got your Biggles books and your goggles?
Pat

Postby **Patbretagne** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:21 am

Oh, and Harold, thanks for the enlightenment,
It has been a little nagging thought in my mind since youth saying t'would be nice to be able to fly a plane.
But nothing ever came of it, never mind, I've got three cubs to fly instead!
Pat

Postby **Harold R** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:39 pm

Pat, my avatar photo was taken at the great and historic aerodrome at Le Ferte Alais. I played there as a child.....long before it became famous! Just do a google search of the place.

mike in ga · Postby **mike in ga** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:25 pm

say that is anice looking cub in the picture , sure did enjoy playing with those cubs years ago. mike in ga

WKPoor · Postby **WKPoor** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:19 pm

Our guys of late have been talking about the winds aloft also. Seems 100+ has been common this winter. Yrs ago when I first started with this company we were enroute to Delaware and I saw ground speeds of around 750 on the way over. That was in a Westwind II so the winds were probably that strong.
What were you in? I noticed the TCAS on the MFD.

Postby **Harold R** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:02 pm

737-500.

Postby **Don McCombs** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:43 pm

Bill,

What were you doing in DE?

WKPoor · Postby **WKPoor** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:51 pm

I can't remember if I was going to a pre-buy or school now, that was 1987.

Postby **Don McCombs** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:33 pm

Atlantic Aviation?

Farmall Cub

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