Headwinds, always

I just returned from an 8-day tour of the midwest. This was a 6-leg
circular route west to Des Moines from Chicago, then up to the Dakotas,
back through Duluth, Green Bay. We mostly flew at 7000 ft. We had
20-30 knot headwinds on 5 of the 6 legs and never once a tailwind.

Paul kgyy wrote:
I just returned from an 8-day tour of the midwest. This was a 6-leg
circular route west to Des Moines from Chicago, then up to the Dakotas,
back through Duluth, Green Bay. We mostly flew at 7000 ft. We had
20-30 knot headwinds on 5 of the 6 legs and never once a tailwind.

I had a tailwind once. I don't talk about it much, 'cause nobody believes me. :-)

George Patterson
Why do men's hearts beat faster, knees get weak, throats become dry,
and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.

In a previous article, George Patterson said:
Paul kgyy wrote:
back through Duluth, Green Bay. We mostly flew at 7000 ft. We had
20-30 knot headwinds on 5 of the 6 legs and never once a tailwind.

I had a tailwind once. I don't talk about it much, 'cause nobody believes me. :-)

I don't believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, that the FAA is there to
help me, or tailwinds.


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. And if he can't
be bothered to learn to fish and starves to death, that's a good enough
outcome for me. -- Steve VanDevender

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:34:02 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

In a previous article, George Patterson said:
Paul kgyy wrote:
back through Duluth, Green Bay. We mostly flew at 7000 ft. We had
20-30 knot headwinds on 5 of the 6 legs and never once a tailwind.

I had a tailwind once. I don't talk about it much, 'cause nobody believes me. :-)

I don't believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, that the FAA is there to
help me, or tailwinds.

I once made 144Kt GS in a Warrior II and another member of the group
had 160Kt earlier this year. Mostly I'm lucky to get 100Kt :-(

On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 15:43:48 +0100, wrote:

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:34:02 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

In a previous article, George Patterson said:
Paul kgyy wrote:
back through Duluth, Green Bay. We mostly flew at 7000 ft. We had
20-30 knot headwinds on 5 of the 6 legs and never once a tailwind.

I had a tailwind once. I don't talk about it much, 'cause nobody believes me. :-)

I don't believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, that the FAA is there to
help me, or tailwinds.

I once made 144Kt GS in a Warrior II and another member of the group
had 160Kt earlier this year. Mostly I'm lucky to get 100Kt :-(

Should have mentioned the opposite in the last post.

Long Island in Bahamas to Fort Pierce Florida estimated less than
3.5hr no wind but took 4.75hr. GS 73Kt at times. Legs firmly crossed
in the end! Fuel reserve on landing 45 mins but not measureable with a
stick as the tank slopes.

Paul,

Westbound at 7,000 feet?

Might explain the headwinds g.

Sometimes I try to console myself with the flying time I'm getting when
in a headwind. Never works, I feel like a salmon swimming upstream.

All the best,
Rick

In a previous article, said:
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:34:02 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:
I don't believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, that the FAA is there to
help me, or tailwinds.

I once made 144Kt GS in a Warrior II and another member of the group
had 160Kt earlier this year. Mostly I'm lucky to get 100Kt :-(

Well, I made 200kt GS in a Dakota once, but I still think it was magic
pixies or really good gas.


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Watership Down: you've read the book, you've seen the film,
now try the stew.
-- Chris Suslowicz

wrote:

Never works, I feel like a salmon swimming upstream.

Salmon arguably have better reasons for doing so. :-)

George Patterson
Why do men's hearts beat faster, knees get weak, throats become dry,
and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.

"Paul kgyy" wrote:
We had 20-30 knot headwinds on 5 of the 6 legs
and never once a tailwind.

Flew round trip Mobile - Baton Rouge Saturday, with a 30-minute stop at BTR.

6,000' there, 7,000' back, course 270, 090.

Headwinds both ways.
--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM

Well, I did say "mostly" 7000 ... :-)

Curiously, from Door County WI to Chicago IFR my first leg was about
195, then about 170degrees so I filed for 6000. When I turned to 170 I
asked ATC if they wanted me to change altitude - answer was NO.