In article ,
Charles Yeates wrote:

Early this month, flying my PW5 reached a total of 1000 hrs. I have had
283 flights that averaged of 3 hours and 33 min a flight. My x/country
flights have been 229 for 38,283 KLM, ( more than around the World ).

Unfortunately, we don't know how many hours those 229 x-country flights
were, but since they are the vast majority of the flights they can't be
*much* more than 3h33 each.

Even if those 229 flights used up all 1000 hours, his average x-country
speed is 42 km/h, and it might be as high as 48 km/h.

That's not bad. Here in NZ my normal PW-5 x-country speeds on a good
thermal day are around 60 km/h. But to rack up that much time so
quickly he must be flying on some pretty dodgy days, which pulls down
average speeds very quickly -- I remember one local club contest day
where I got second (in a Libelle) with a 15 km/h speed, and only two of
us got more than 20 km from home!

-- Bruce