KOWD: Slow Flight at 15kts GS

N1ksa

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Just a couple minute clip of my isntructor and myself over Wrentham Village Outlets and I495 in the Southwest practice area in a C172R N721SA.

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That is such a weird feeling.

I have gone backwards in a 152 before. The handheld GPS said 5kts, and was pointing in the opposite direction and everything. =]
 
Had we gone up about 1000 feet higher that day, the winds aloft were showing 40+ knots at 3000 feet. So we would have been really darn close to going backwards.
 
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