Riding the Mountain Waves
Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
We had been lifted above our assigned altitude.” Using my 80-knot tailwind and a stationary wave, my groundspeed and therefore penetration speed through the wave would be 160 knots faster than an upwind approach and theoretically more turbulent. We had just been caught by Mother Nature’s roller coaster. Airspeed was approaching VMO.
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