MeCasa16
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I was flying from LAX to EWR with a whopping 5 passengers in a 737-900.
41,000 ft and a screaming tail wind pushing us along. Some interesting fun facts for those of you who might care while you’re stuck at home. Our indicated airspeed at that altitude was only about 230kts. Our true airspeed corrected for altitude and temperature was 441kts. You can see that in the GPS shot above. The tailwind was pushing hard and bumped our groundspeed up to the 607kts, which is 698.5mph. Flight time was 4 hours and 7 minutes. I was thankful for the quick flight since I left at 10:15pm. We burned just over 20,000lbs of fuel. I can just feel Greta’s displeasure.
I had to stay in that cesspool of Corona for 11 hours, and then flew a whopping 4 passengers back to LAX. This time we were working against the jet stream.