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Phew!
Cheated death once again. The winds today were brutal. The place where we rent the 172 is slow getting it fixed. We just could not face the winds in his 152. We went 100 yards to another flight school to rent his 172. He had it booked but the winds were so high no student wanted to fly, so it was open. The winds were 5 MPH under the maximum limit. Aloft the winds were insane. We would fly south while headed SW, and the ground speed was 61 knots. The airspeed showed 120!
Then we would turn and go north and the airspeed would peg at 140 and we would throttle back and still be moving fast.
In the end the winds were just right, any slower and the student that had the airplane booked would have flown. Any faster and we could not fly.
It was more turning and direction changes than any roller coaster at Disneyworld. Fortunately we avoided going inverted like the roller coasters!
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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