If airspeed indicators had odometers

Windy as all get out today, the plane tied down on the apron took quite
a beating. Saw the tail lift on a 170 and two 150's actually left the ground
a few times. While scrambling around trying to keep them pointed into the
wind and resecuring the wheel chocks, I noticed some pretty high airspeed
indications. 50 was the highest I saw. We all had a joke about odometers on
airspeed indicators, and how everyone that sold a plane would say, naw, that
aint the right milage, the guys that had it before me never covered the
pitot and he lived in a very windy area.

Would be kind of neat though to compare the indicated milage to the true
milage for an indication of amount of headwind or tailwind though.

Wayne

"Wayne" wrote in message
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Would be kind of neat though to compare the indicated milage to the
true
milage for an indication of amount of headwind or tailwind though.

I do that all the time. Except I use true airspeed and true groundspeed to
get an instantaneous reading, rather than the average you'd get using your
method.

Pete

Oddly enough, the 1903 Flyer had an odometer such as you describe. It was
powered by an anemometer.