This was on Oct 20th from LOAN to LOWI. We were in the climb with about 110 knots TAS in FL70.
At least there was no highway directly below us, so we were saved from the embarassement of cars overtaking us 
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Hear, hear. Still less pleasant was descending to EBCI in a heavily iced C172H with minimum fuel, against a gusty wind, and seeing GS occasionally drop to 16-19 knots.
My personal record was GPS groundspeed 11 knots in the opposite direction, in the C 150. But, it has a STOL kit, I was really trying, and it was a horrendous wind at altitude…..
It isnt often that something like this happens. I flew from EDMA to LHTL VFR mostly at FL075 almost DCT with the highest GS of 230 Kts. I had a direct tailwind of on occasion at 70 kts.
I dont know why I didnt take a picture of it.
Was that wind for free, or did you get an invoice from the German Met office? You save so much fuel, you can go to TIVAT now!
;-)
Beat mine then
It was interesting that was only at FL075 I wonder how much faster it would have been at FL120 or FL140?
lyer59 20-Nov-15 09:45 #02
Was that wind for free, or did you get an invoice from the German Met office? You save so much fuel, you can go to TIVAT now!
;-
Actually It would have been better, if I had not had to break in my #5 cycl, which required I run at 75% power. That is why I flew a VFR flight plan at FL075. Otherwise I would have climbed to FL140 and leaned out to 38L/hr or 10gal/hr .
Slightly at a tangent but we had a headwind (unfortunately yes a headwind) of 170kts heading west across the UK at FL320 last night. Highest I have seen in a long time.
Wow so how fast a ground speed did you have?
