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One of the pictures shows
the winds aloft for Huntsville Alabama this evening. Seeing these
speeds, I decided to go for a record. I had never seen ground
speeds greater than 179 kts in my plane before.
Although the service ceiling for the Cheetah is 12,600, I can
easily get to 15,000'. However I was on flight following hoping
to get data on flightaware.com, the track of which begins after
I have pulled back power and am descending through 12,000. Since
I was on flight following, and did not have oxygen, I didn't
want to bust the reg for going above 14,000, and not above 12,500
for more than 30 minutes.
If you look at those winds above me you can see why higher
would have been better!
I was at 13,500' and the highest speed I saw was 218. The highest
pic I have is 217kts. My gps is a Garmin/Apollo SL50.
Also included is a picture of my freshly overhauled, freshly
painted plane, still without stripes.
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