An airplane is suspended mid-air, appearing motionless, as it encounters a powerful headwind that negates its forward momentum, resulting in a ground speed of zero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FgF4oGWf7w
Video : Strong headwind - Ground Speed 0
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Re: Video : Strong headwind - Ground Speed 0
Reminds me of flight training. Used to take students out when strong upper winds were present and would do slow flight and see how slowly we could progress with reference to the ground. Most of the time we'd get down to just really slow or no forward progress but on a few occasions actually wound up flying backwards with reference to the ground.
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“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”
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Re: Video : Strong headwind - Ground Speed 0
I've always been disappointed the GPS never showed a negative value
As an AvCanada discussion grows longer:
-the probability of 'entitlement' being mentioned, approaches 1
-one will be accused of using bad airmanship
-the probability of 'entitlement' being mentioned, approaches 1
-one will be accused of using bad airmanship
Re: Video : Strong headwind - Ground Speed 0
Flying backwards must be quite impressive indeed.