{"id":993,"date":"2005-11-22T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2005-11-22T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T18:32:00","slug":"immelmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"immelmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually got in the air today for the first time in a couple of weeks.  It&#8217;s just been too rainy and\/or windy on the days I was scheduled to fly, and even today was borderline with a gusty 15 mph wind out of the northwest, but I made the executive decision to go up anyway.  I thought we&#8217;d just do some ground reference maneuvers and fly back to the airport, but we ended up flying all the way to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airnav.com\/airport\/int\">Winston-Salem<\/a>.  I got some good practice with Class D airspace communications and a chance to land at their nice, wide runway.  Didn&#8217;t hurt that the prevailing wind was blowing straight down the runway, either.  Made my life easier&#8211;no crosswind to wrestle with.  Landing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airnav.com\/airport\/31a\">Sugar Valley<\/a> was another story, though, since the runway doesn&#8217;t exactly line up with the wind and the surface is only 25 ft wide to begin with.  And even just flying back from Winston&#8230;  I had to crab into the wind darn near 45\u00b0 just to maintain a constant heading tracking down I40.  We flew 9899J, the only plane in the fleet with a GPS, and with it we could view our groundspeed&#8211;it was close to 70 kts with an indicated airspeed of 105-110.  &#8216;Twas interesting.  But I did well.<\/p>\n<p>Mmm&#8230;  Gotta do dry cleaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually got in the air today for the first time in a couple of weeks. It&#8217;s just been too rainy and\/or windy on the days I was scheduled to fly, and even today was borderline with a gusty 15 mph wind out of the northwest, but I made the executive decision to go up anyway. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}