07 April 2010

Flexibility is the key to airpower

Or at least to travel by Cessna 170B. If you look at a weather map today, you'll see a stationary front lined up nice and pretty right between us and where we want to be. And when they call it stationary, they really mean stationary.

That front is causing crazy winds aloft - right now they're estimating 60 knot winds aloft. That's over 50% of our cruise speed. With those winds we could honestly drive there faster. Much faster.

So now we're evaluating options. I'm guessing that evaluating options may be a valuable skill in this new (to us) mode of traveling.

More to follow...



1 comment:

lydia.itoi said...

This is hilarious, like traveling in an airborne Winnebago. I so wish I were along for the ride!