March 9, 201214 yr Doing KEWR-LLBG right now and have had a 160kt tailwind pushing me along out over Connecticut, Boston, Halifax and up towards my NAT crossing. Just did Newark to Halifax in 55 minutes with departure and climbout!!! Just looked down to see almost 670kts on the GS indicator... If you are doing a transatlantic expect it to be quick eastbound and VERY long the other way unless you can avoid the jetstream!-P Have a Wonderful Day -Paul Solk
March 9, 201214 yr Thanks for the heads up, Paul! Any idea how long the winds will hold up? Through the weekend? Smooth Skies! -- Chuck B. MACHINE 1:FS2004/WinXP Pro 64, Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 Clocked to 4.35 GHz, Corsair H50, Asus Maximus Formula, 4GB PNY XLR8 DDR2 @1067, ATI 4870 and 4650, WD Raptor 10K RPM 160 GB HD, Seagate 500 mgb 32mgb cache, 2 Analog 2HTGs w/ 3 19" I-INC flat panel monitors 1280x1024x32, and 1 17" at 1280 x 1024, PC Silencer 750 Quad, FSPassengers, FSUPIC, (Payware), WideFS MACHINE 2: Dell Dimension, P4, WideClient, FDC Live Cockpit, Pro Flight Emulator, Active Sky v6.5 MACHINE 3: ASUS u81A Laptop, Windows 7 (what a joke!), WideClient, FlightSim Commander
March 9, 201214 yr MAJOR cold front moving through the East USA right now....Upstate NY was 62 degrees F yesterday, today were in low 40's to 30's degree F, and intermittent snow. :)It's all pushing through now, will be off coast headed east for the weekend. John Binner, MCDST U.S. Dept Of Veteran Affairs, Senior IT Analyst OI&T, SPM, Clinical Imaging 2022 Build: Thermaltake Core X71 Full tower case, ASUS Prime X570-P Motherboard, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core CPU, ASUS TUF Gaming Radeon RX6900 XT GPU, G.SKILL Ripjaws 32GB DDR 3600 RAM, Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 850W 80+ Gold PSU, Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L Water Cooler
March 10, 201214 yr Commercial Member When I first bought the ES CitationX I was always looking for routes with tailwinds, I'd check this site:http://www.aviationweather.gov/adds/windsIt shows surface winds by default so make sure you select a flight level like FL360 or something. ...and then do a flight in the red part of the chart travelling in the general direction of the wind streamlines with ASEvo or some other RW weather engine running. I had 'er going "real damn fast" a couple times, seems the "airshow" display in the CitX maxes out at 699 mph GS, talk about burying the speedometer, lol.On the subject of local weather, I saw 55° F on the thermo today, haven't seen that since October. Yeah baby! Maybe there is hope. It's been a long miserable winter here in N. Idaho so I'm 'giddy' over 55° :smile:Jim
March 10, 201214 yr I did ORD to BOS yesterday in the iFly 737 - had 110 kts tailwind at FL320. Nice!
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