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Finally A Nice Day
So we finally got a nice weekend of sunny weather here in London. Blue skies forecasted for both Saturday and Sunday with one booking on each day. I decided to get some cross country time in by planning a trip to Chatham (CNZ3) which is a 5,000′ uncontrolled strip 60 NM southwest of London. I had a direct tailwind heading to Chatham and a not-so-fun direct headwind coming back. I managed to clock my fastest groundspeed yet at a whopping 150 knots. Yeah yeah.. so it’s not really that fast for a lot of people, but for a little tiny DA20, that’s pretty good! Anyways, I’ll try and get in another cross country flight on Sunday which will boost my XC time over 23 hours PIC. Looking forward to the long cross country that I get to do as part of my CPL requirement (3 intermediate stops and at least 300NM in distance).
Here is the evidence.
Followed by the shear excitement derived from such speed.
A Peek Around the Cockpit [Video]
Here’s a short video of the DA20’s cockpit in flight. I’m on the return leg of a cross country flight from Goderich (CYGD) to London (CYXU) at 5,500′. Groundspeed is a massive 130 knots – pretty fast for a DV20.
It should be noted that although the aircraft is called a DA20, it’s symbol on the flight planning form is actually DV20. I think that DA20 was already taken by a Dassault Falcon 2000.
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