GEXDriver
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NJA Capt said:And, so you don't have to get out the Almanac, the winds in March are about half the winds in Nov. You guys are funny. It drives you crazy that a little tin Cessna product cruises faster than the mighty, super clean, aerodynamically superior-to-every-man-made-object-that-will-ever-be-built Gulfstream.
You need to think before you type. The lower the winds, the more it benefits the Citation X on a Westbound trip. The X can't run the 2135 nm from Teterboro to Van Nuys at Mach 0.92 against typical Westerly winds at any time of the year, but the lower the winds, the faster it can cruise on that trip. The G550 can run nearly 5,000 nm at .88 Mach so wind speeds don't really matter to the G.