Riding the wave in an MD-11

On a recent leg from the west coast to Memphis (at night of course) playing Santa in a Fedex MD-11, we encountered a nice bounce in the wave crossing the Sangre De Cristo range at FL350. Wave was in the forecast so I got the camera ready as we approached the range. Pretty cool how much energy is out there pushing a 500K lb machine around.
Hope to find that going downwind someday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjXGD10Je-s

Cheers,
Gordon Boettger

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The link posted above was taken from my first flight in wave a few years back. I think it was between Calgary and Denver? Our flight plan put us right in the sink,and I asked the Captain if he minded if I asked atc for a "deviation right of course for weather." They both thought I was nuts... but it did make us go faster!

On Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 2:14:34 PM UTC+1, wrote:
The link posted above was taken from my first flight in wave a few years back. I think it was between Calgary and Denver? Our flight plan put us right in the sink,and I asked the Captain if he minded if I asked atc for a "deviation right of course for weather." They both thought I was nuts... but it did make us go faster!

I've done that a couple of times, too: using the 'heading select' knob to steer the autopilot along the 'good' side! Last winter we flew for nearly five minutes once at FL350 with the power at idle, while maintaining at or above target mach. And we were getting paid!