6500' I can nae nae..10000' you must be cray cray

I took a 172 to 19k once.

It was good.
 
6500 feet at my home airport of KPNA & you aren't even to field elevation! Add 600 feet to that then we are there. I fly at 10,000 to 12,000 quite a bit otherwise you won't be clearing those big bumps coming up out of the ground called mountains! :wink2:
 
At 10k feet you will be about 50 feet below ground in the backyard at my cabin in CO.
 
Perhaps my math is wrong.. I came up with roughly 921 years at the speed of light.
 
Kritchlow said:
Perhaps my math is wrong.. I came up with roughly 921 years at the speed of light.
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I came up with ~877 years, but I also used round numbers 186,000/5280/3600/24/365
 
Kritchlow said:
Perhaps my math is wrong.. I came up with roughly 921 years at the speed of light.
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Nope, not wrong. I made a stupid unit mistake that I really know better than to do…

There are pi*10^7 seconds in a year.

Still, it means the Captain is older than dirt.

And never exaggerates. Ever.
 
MAKG1 said:
Nope, not wrong. I made a stupid unit mistake that I really know better than to do…

There are pi*10^7 seconds in a year.

Still, it means the Captain is older than dirt.

And never exaggerates. Ever.
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I just realized that we are on average 93,000,000ish miles from the sun, SoL is 186,000mi/s

93*2 = 186. Maybe metric isn't the way to go. :rofl:
 
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I did some math...might have screwed it up tho.

I figure I've flown 23.3 billion feet. Compared to 10,000 (dropped the 500 for simplicity) I get .000000042918454

.00000000000000037 was my original figure and it seems I was only off by 8 zeros. Although, in another light I was very close in that I let go of the zero key a mere fraction of a second too late. Around .00000000000000037 seconds to be exact.
 
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EdFred said:
I came up with ~877 years, but I also used round numbers 186,000/5280/3600/24/365
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We are definitely WELL inside the same ballpark, but I'm betting your numbers are closer. I rounded even more than you did...
 
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Although, in another light I was very close in that I let go of the zero key a mere fraction of a second too late. Around .00000000000000037 seconds to be exact.
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You can measure time below a femtosecond? That's real hard. That should allow you to observe chemical reactions in action. For comparison, good atomic clock "ticks" are in the 100 picosecond range, around 100,000 times slower.

Dang, you're fast. Contact your nearest university. They could use you.
 
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You can measure time below a femtosecond? That's real hard. That should allow you to observe chemical reactions in action. For comparison, good atomic clock "ticks" are in the 100 picosecond range, around 100,000 times slower.

Dang, you're fast. Contact your nearest university. They could use you.
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I'm not measuring time. I'm measuring distance as I did in my original post that started all this. I'm comparing the distance I've flown to the distance above sea level of the airport in the post I quoted (10,500).
 
Oh, you're referring to my letting go of the keyboard key. Okay, yeah...there I was measuring time but it was a joke.
 
Well I went up there tonight and it was not bad at all. I thought about going to 11,500 but it took awhile just to get to 10'000 so I dropped to 9,500 instead. Just for the heck of it I checked my O2 and it was 87% at 9500 my wife was at 96%. Also went to lamberts for the first time it was worth it I will definitely go back.
 
Went to 10,500 for the first time today, it was no big deal. Subjectively, the difference between 3k and 6k feels much bigger than the difference between 6k and 10k.

I wish I had remembered my pulse oximeter.
 
Yea I noticed the same thing the sight picture was really not much different than at 6500.
 
I think it would be awesome to fly out there. I flew into KSIK today elevation 315ft lol
 
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