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Neal,
Great idea, however, after being in a battle with a bunch
of RV7 guys, you might wanna be a little careful... Those are Ground speed
number on Flighaware... You'd need to know what the winds were at altitude that
day to really be able to prove a point. Yes, the RV's are a *little
slower* (most are cursing around 200MPH), but there are a handful that are
running about 210-212MPH and doing it on about 8 g/hr
They are a very "dollar" sensitive group and even fuel burn
costs make for an interesting argument with them :)
Either way, good point and always a fun thing. You
can also put in types to see what of the various Lancair types are up flying at
anytime.
Mind you all of this has to be IFR flight
plans.
Alan
Fellow Lancair pilots:
One nice tool we use in sales to demonstrate our
airplanes unique speed (and range) capability are the actual flight logs on
www.flightaware.com. For example,
we will have a potential Legacy FG customer pull up N550NL, you won't see many
RV 7's at 17,000 ft 200+ knots doing 850nm legs. The catch is you have to
file IFR on the ground to insure flightaware picks up the
flight.
Peter and I are putting together a list of frequent
Lancair flyers to be able to reference, so if you fly IFR please let us know
your tail number and model, you can email either one of us. It may also be
fun at Lancair gatherings to announce the fasted recorded groundspeeds by
type.
Thanks,
Lancair sales team.
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