Mountain flying knowledge required?

"Stefan" wrote in message
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Depending on the wind situation, you can expect downdrafts of 10 fpm or
even more. No light single will outclimb this, even less at altitude.

You need to recalibrate your vertical speed reference. 10 fpm (or 20 fpm,
as you wrote elsewhere) is 10 feet per minute. That's nothing, and quite a
bit less than any actual up or down that one might find due to mountain wave
or similar effects.

I have no idea what you meant to write, but it's absolutely false that "no
light single will outclimb" 10 fpm downdraft.

Pete

Peter Duniho wrote:
"Stefan" wrote in message
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Depending on the wind situation, you can expect downdrafts of 10 fpm or
even more. No light single will outclimb this, even less at altitude.


You need to recalibrate your vertical speed reference. 10 fpm (or 20 fpm,
as you wrote elsewhere) is 10 feet per minute. That's nothing, and quite a
bit less than any actual up or down that one might find due to mountain wave
or similar effects.

I have no idea what you meant to write, but it's absolutely false that "no
light single will outclimb" 10 fpm downdraft.

Pete

Peter Duniho wrote:

10 feet per minute.
....
I have no idea what you meant to write,

I've meant 1000 to 2000 fpm.

Stefan

Stefan wrote:

Peter Duniho wrote:

10 feet per minute.

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I have no idea what you meant to write,


I've meant 1000 to 2000 fpm.

Still isn't fatal.

Newps wrote:

I've meant 1000 to 2000 fpm.

Still isn't fatal.

Nobody talked about fatal. You just can't outclimb this at altitude with
a light, non turbo charged single. So it may indeed become fatal, and
has so on a regular basis, for those who don't know how to behave in the
mountains.

Stefan