Sunday, December 10, 2006

Winds that help and hurt

I have planned the JGG-->LVL-->PHF x-c and have run through it twice with the wind conditions at the times of the exercises.

The no-wind flight time for the trip is 1:20. The first set of winds helped on one leg as much as they hurt on the other, and the wind-corrected speeds produced a trip time of 1:20. Neat! The winds today, however, were overall more beneficial and the trip time came down to 1:15.

The trip is a DR x-c since that's what I did the worst on during the last one. The waypoints on the way to LVL are the town of Waverly, with its collection of towers and pairing of highway and train tracks, and the town of Jarratt, next to I-95 with a water tower and a factory. On the way to PHF, the first checkpoint is a VOR fix between the LVL and FKN VORs, which ought to be neat since we have just the one VOR indicator. The second checkpoint is AKQ (and I'll resist the urge to cheat this time and will nail it!), then Aberdeen and then we should be on the horn with the PHF tower.

Oh, and I'm now positive that RTFP is wrong wrt JGG, for this x-c at least.

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