Take a look at the wind vector (lower right corner of the PFD) I got on today's flight! 71 knots out of about 300!
Oh yeah, you get winds like that at altitude!
She was still climbing 500 fpm at 17.5K, so I called up Center, got a clearance, and headed on up. I leveled at FL210 becasue I started getting nervous about Mags arc-tracking and such...nothing was going wrong, but it is easy to imagine! These altitudes are fun, but totally impractical - unless you can put that wind on the tail! I also didn't have the courage to lean it any more than I had it - the mixture lever was almost on the idle-cut-off stop! I don't believe the fuel flow number - I had the pump on to make sure of good fuel pressure, and that always makes my FF read high. She was still climbing steadily at 350 fpm when I leveled off at 210, but I'm not intending to try for anything higher!
(Before anyone complains about the lines in the GRT displays, those aren't there when you see it - they are an artifact of reducing the digital picture.)
Of course, Nasal Canulas are only good up to 18,000, so I had to wear the real stuff...
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Oh yeah, you get winds like that at altitude!
She was still climbing 500 fpm at 17.5K, so I called up Center, got a clearance, and headed on up. I leveled at FL210 becasue I started getting nervous about Mags arc-tracking and such...nothing was going wrong, but it is easy to imagine! These altitudes are fun, but totally impractical - unless you can put that wind on the tail! I also didn't have the courage to lean it any more than I had it - the mixture lever was almost on the idle-cut-off stop! I don't believe the fuel flow number - I had the pump on to make sure of good fuel pressure, and that always makes my FF read high. She was still climbing steadily at 350 fpm when I leveled off at 210, but I'm not intending to try for anything higher!
(Before anyone complains about the lines in the GRT displays, those aren't there when you see it - they are an artifact of reducing the digital picture.)
Of course, Nasal Canulas are only good up to 18,000, so I had to wear the real stuff...
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