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November 4th, 2007, 21:19
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Chicago, Illinois
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November 4th, 2007, 23:58
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| Old Skool  Join Date: May 2006 Location: Florida
Posts: 2,115
| Re: Slow flight to the extreme!
Damn. I think there was a second there where he was not moving at all.
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November 5th, 2007, 01:31
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: South of the Border
Posts: 1,921
| Re: Slow flight to the extreme!
my personal best is a Groundspeed of 7kts, i would love to get one backwards sometime but i dont fly anything slow enough
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November 5th, 2007, 08:49
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: G-Forks, ND/ NYC
Posts: 3,215
| Re: Slow flight to the extreme! Quote:
  I should've tried it the other day, in the Warrior. The winds were around 55 kts at 5000ish. | |
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November 13th, 2007, 18:23
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: KGFK/KPDX
Posts: 314
  | Re: Slow flight to the extreme!
I managed to get it down to 4 knots. Not sure if it was +4 or -4. It was on the same day you are referring to, except at the time we had 50 knot winds from west around 5000. |
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November 14th, 2007, 13:14
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| Newbie  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Arkansas
Posts: 20
| Re: Slow flight to the extreme!
I set the record at my flight school with -13 knots in a 152. The GPS showed us moving the opposite direction that we were facing. It was really cool to see the ground moving the wrong direction.
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November 15th, 2007, 11:31
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| Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 73
| Re: Slow flight to the extreme!
My first log entry is in this aircraft. It is a Antonov AN-2. NATO call sign COLT. Russian design and built by most Eastern block countries. I think China still builds them. Very interesting animal - It has a 1,000 horse power radial and can lift 12,000 lbs. Mostly used for transport, parachuting and surveillance – just in front of the rear crew door, there is a small trap door with a clear Plexiglas window underneath for viewing. With the proper head wind, you can darn near stop the aircraft mid-air. 
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November 15th, 2007, 18:50
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 327
| Re: Slow flight to the extreme!
"An interesting note from the pilot's handbook reads: "If the engine quits in instrument conditions (blind flying when you can't see the ground) or at night, the pilot should pull the control column full aft (it wont stall) and keep the wings level. The leading-edge slats will snap out at about 40 mph (64 km/h), and when the airplane slows to a forward speed of about 25 mph [40 km/h], the airplane will sink at about a parachute descent rate until the aircraft hits the ground."
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November 15th, 2007, 22:29
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Nowhere
Posts: 188
| Re: Slow flight to the extreme!
Yeah, my best was 3 knots. Couldn't quite get it to go backwards. It was actually quite funny, because it was one of my student's first flights, and he didn't quite understand the concept of groundspeed. I think he figured it out after that |
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November 23rd, 2007, 21:23
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: KMSL
Posts: 1,845
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I've been -2 knots in a Warrior.. It was the craziest thing to climb out and never see the view out the window change..
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