Jeff ) wrote:

then said, "what kind of ground speed are you showing on that tomahawk"
tower said 100 kts, the airliner goes, 100 kts over the ground! Oh
boyyyyyy..

During my instrument training we were about five miles out on an ILS
approach when a taxiing B737 arrived at the runway and called ready. I
thought for sure the tower would clear him for T/O but instead they
instructed him to hold short for landing traffic.

On this clear day there was a moderately strong headwind, so my groundspeed
was somewhere around 65kts in a C172. About thirty seconds elapses when
the pilot of the B737 asks the tower, "What kind of aircraft is
approaching, a helicopter?"

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Peter