Pilot, Know Thyself: Discovering What It Means to Be Painfully Average
Flying Magazine
JUNE 10, 2025
Participating airlines equip their aircraft with quick access recorders to harvest and regularly uplink detailed flight data. I took off from Runway 34L at 169,800 pounds gross weight, rotated at 1.8 minutes, covered 1,722 nm at an average ground speed of 511 knots, and burned 22,200 pounds of jet-A.
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