ryguy

Sorry for the quality of these but it was dark with my phone. We were heading to HKG over Russia with a long line of traffic racing to get in first. Needless to say we almost won except for Singapore 1, those guys don't worry about gas and never slowed down. Once we got well enough ahead we slowed back to normal speed.


Check out the mach number in the upper left of the PFD. We still had more but held it off. ATC wanted us to pass the others.


A company A340-600 never had a chance! He left 15 mins before us and we got there 25 mins ahead of him.


Saying Hi to Kim Jong-il as we pass over N. Korea.

ryguy

Back to normal speed at cost index 80

Planespotta

Can't the whale max out at around .92?

ryguy

I wish....the MMO is .90

georgetg

cost index 80 LOL!


Cheers
George

slavenaway

Zoom! I wish my rig went that fast.

multipilot

You're having way too much fun

Senior Skipper

Ryguy,

Awesome shots! Pardon me if the questions are silly, but why was it important to get there first? Why did ATC want you to pass everybody?

How long were you at .89, and how did it impact your arrival fuel prediction?

ryguy

It was more about getting past the slower guys so we didn't get stuck behind them when we got close. None of us were close to overtime this month so it was nice to get to the hotel. ATC requested us to get by them so they could climb. If you notice, that 340 was a couple thousand feet below and wanted to get further up. He had been held down by SQ1 who was haulin' butt and passed us. Only thing to do at that point to get him and the others (couple MD-11's and another 'bus) a climb in a reasonable period was for us to blow past as well. Otherwise we would slowly go by over a period of a few hours and hold those guys a few thousand below where they needed to be. We had a printout of everyone filed on that route so we knew it would be hard to jockey for altitudes etc. We put on a few extra tons of gas for that purpose.

Senior Skipper

Thanks for the info Ryguy!