Ed_Wischmeyer
Well Known Member
Okay, so the big engine RV boys get all excited about 200 knots, meaning, more or less, a thirty knot tailwind. Yup, worth getting excited about.
Yesterday, up at 9,500 (until I started getting the first hints of hypoxia -- yes, I know, lower altitude than many) I saw 155 KTAS, and 182 knots groundspeed. So I'm thinking -- maybe RV-9ers with 160 HP engines ought to have a 200 MPH club or something. 200 knots would be pretty hard to do.
Not sure what the RV-14 guys would do. 200 KMPH doesn't seem like much of a challenge for them, unless it's taxiing...
Ed
Yesterday, up at 9,500 (until I started getting the first hints of hypoxia -- yes, I know, lower altitude than many) I saw 155 KTAS, and 182 knots groundspeed. So I'm thinking -- maybe RV-9ers with 160 HP engines ought to have a 200 MPH club or something. 200 knots would be pretty hard to do.
Not sure what the RV-14 guys would do. 200 KMPH doesn't seem like much of a challenge for them, unless it's taxiing...
Ed