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Comment by Gautam Lewis on February 25, 2014 at 8:33am

this is brilliant..thanks for making the video

Comment by Shawn Magin on February 18, 2014 at 5:20pm

Awesome john!

Comment by Bob Lee on February 18, 2014 at 7:59am

I got down to 10 in my Cherokee Six over Cape Cod with three notches of flaps. 

Loiter time to look for whales.

Read a story by a Cub flyer coming down the coast of Maine who was pushed backward out over the ocean. He needed to skim the surface to get enough headway to get back to land.

There are some wicked winds that blow over the White Mountains to the sea in waves. In the same area in the Six I have had to throttle way back and fly "downhill" to maintain my altitude and not redline.

Interesting times.

Comment by Mack P. Kreizenbeck on February 17, 2014 at 7:39pm

This is a common occurrence for those trying to fly across Wyoming!
Thanks for the video - enjoyed it.
Has anyone thought about the stall possibility during this configuration?????
Comments????
Mack

Comment by Bob Pustell on February 16, 2014 at 8:46pm

I did this in 1969 as a solo student in a straightback Cessna 150. The wind at the surface was only 15 or so, right down the runway so the instructor sent me out for a solo local practice ride. It did not take long to realize that the winds aloft were really howling even though it was smooth as glass. I went up to 4,000 feet and flew across the field backwards, very slowly. When I got on the ground the instructor was a bit stern with me about playing around but he also thought it was cool. He went up and did it also. He did not call me inflight to ask what I was up to because that old 150 did not have any radios of any kind. Only the new (1966 model) 150 had a radio but it cost more to rent. There certainly was no GoPro camera to document it or a GPS to give exact groundspeed. Times have changed. Fun video, thanks for making it!

Comment by Jerry "Sonny" Webster on February 16, 2014 at 4:20pm

Must have looked odd to folks on the ground.  Did this once in a C150 at about 10,000' and got a very strange feeling of "high anxiety"; like looking over the railing from a very tall building.  Once I did a 180 and got some speed over the ground the feeling went away.  So guess you can have a fear of heights but not a fear of flying.

Comment by David Griggs on February 16, 2014 at 3:20pm

Thanks for posting, great video.
I flew backwards in a 172 with an instructor along and made him put a note in my log book.
It was a bi annual and the wind on the ground was only about 15, at 3,000 ft it changed directions and was howling. We were in controlled airspace so I asked the instructor if we should call the tower and tell them we are backing in for a landing! No video but great memory.

Comment by David Orr on February 16, 2014 at 3:06pm

That was really neat!! Great commentary too.

Comment by Dr. Edward L. Olds III on February 16, 2014 at 2:49pm

John,

Great video!  I'd have to refuel to get back home!

Ed

Comment by Robert Stacey on February 16, 2014 at 1:17pm

Amazing John... 

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