Originally Posted by
Bellerophon
The available speed band reduced by around 50kts in the last part of the climb, but still left a usable speed band of around 130kts (+/- CG problems!) to play with!
I tried to come up with some smart-a$$ way to end this quote, being so green with envy and all, but I'm at a loss. So far, I have:
"...but of course the cupholders were a little small..."
"...and then again, we had great difficulty getting ride reports at our altitude, and so we had to slow down, you know, below 2.0 just in case..."
"...but we often missed the cozy camaraderie of the NAT's..."
"...but the true pain was always to fly away from our loved ones so fast, and not slowly enough towards our families and our Chief Pilot..."
"...but we never got the real cool two or three-digits callsigns. Unless you count the two zeros in front of the 7..."
Stuff like that.