The Angry White Man

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On Mar 2, 10:57 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Westbound? Nope. all eastbound. Well, in the 152 anyway.

And 130 knots?
What kind of 152 did you fly? !!!

Prolly about 95 knots, tops. The winds up in that part of the world
are
variable and not too predictable.Over 100 knots form any direction is
possbile. Forecasting and reporting is much better these days,
though,
and of course you can see it on your magic box, whatever that might
be,
wheras I just used ADFs and whatever other tricks might have been at
hand.

Bertie

A Super Duper 152 with a 40 Knot tailwind..

Oh, OK. Well, I don't think I had much wind at all on that trip except a
fairly heavy x-wind between Narsaruaq and Rekjavik. Very high winds
landing in Rekjavik as well. about 60 knots, in fact. Getting to the
ramp from the runway was impssible, so I took off again and flew it to
the ramp and taxiied into wind until I got to the shelter of a large
hangar.

Yikes..that's a lotta time over open water. Did you have room/weight
allowance for all the survival stuff?


Like I said, the weight just didn't enter into any kind of
consideration. Performance was not an issue since all runways were
extremely long and the temps, even in summer would have been low. i had
no problem getting to FL110, which was MEA over some of the route. It
had a temporary HF and ADF installed, I had my dry suit and survival
gear and my backpack, so yeah. it had room and sufficinet allowance for
all that. IIRC, most all Cessnas were allowed 30% anyway. I've flown
some airplanes that carried 120 gallons or more of aux fuel and they
were all legal and able for it.

Bertie