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Originally Posted by Looking4Lower Oh, have fun in the retractable Cardinal! Got about 70 hours in one of them - it's not as fast as it looks, but it's a great cruiser and it's nice 'n roomy! |
Yeah, it's especially not as fast as it looks when there's a 30 knot headwind. That was funny. ATC says to me, say airspeed and I tell them, I'm doing 125 indicated. They say, okay, we're showing you as going about 95. I glance over at the GPS and say, yeah, that's about right, the wind is really blowing! And I thought to myself, you know, if I were doing this in the 172, my groundspeed would be like, oh, 70?
Of course, coming back, I had a groundspeed of about 155 so that was fun.
It's just a fun airplane to fly. Takes a little getting used to, and you've got more things to worry about, but when you get it up there, it's just, fun!
Yeah, yeah, guys. Laugh all you want.
Dude thinks he's going fast at 155 knots? Hah, that's my approach speed.
