Yeah, I couldn't have believed it either. It was over Rapid City SD.
Ground temps were 117 and I did the math. Standard temp lapse rate is
3.1 degrees per 1 thousand feet, They are in the 4000 msl range or so,
8X3 is 24 so it does make sense. I wasn't about to prove them wrong
though, G.


Longworth wrote:
wrote:
I will chime in with my adverture to osh this year. It was my first
time to the"event" and I was planning to fly there in the firebreathing
monster, N801BH.

I am quite curious about your firebreathing monster. Do you have the
spec listed somewhere?

send up also sends back temps too. So, silly me I ask for the currecnt
temps at 3000, 6000, 9000 and12,000. I was shocked to hear the gal say
the temp at 12,000 was 94 degrees F. YUCK

What? 94F at 12,000? Where? We were at 8000' and 9000' in our trips
from Poughkeepsie to Oshkosh then to northern Minnesota back to
Muskegon then Poughkeepsie and never saw OAT higher than 60F.

Hai Longworth