3343V wrote: >If it wasn't the middle of the night I would have dropped 40 >flaps and flew backwards for a while ;) > >
Many years ago, when I was first getting my private license, my instructor and I went flying on a very windy day. While up in the air, he asked if I had ever flown backwards. I said I hadn't, so he had me point the nose into the wind, pull the power back, and put out full flaps. We slowed to near zero, and then he had me pull a bit more power off. We flew backwards for a bit, probably only a few seconds, but it seemed longer. The stall horn bleeped a few times, but it sure impressed me that airspeed and ground speed are NOT the same thing. -- 73, David, kb0zke Rev. 2:10c
