The wind speed towards the west in the banning pass typically gets up to 50-60 miles an hour. Piper cub cruises at about 75 mph. So effectively the ground speed would’ve been 15 mph.
“The wind speed towards the west in the banning pass typically gets up to 50-60 miles an hour. Piper cub cruises at about 75 mph. So effectively the ground speed would’ve been 15 mph.”
15 mph is all I could do there in my 1967 VW bus when I was a teenager.