Fastest Max Speed

 

Hi all,

New to the forum - love it so far.
Just bought a Nuvi 680 and was pokin around and came across the airline post.

Thought it might be fun for people to post their max speed attained for braggin rights and all. Did a search for this kind of post and didn't find anything so I appologize in advance if this topic has been started already.

So far mine is 51.4 mph, but it will be increasing.

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I believe my speed was

I believe my speed was around 590.

Atlanta to San Diego

To address the accuracy of the GPS, I flew from Atlanta to San Diego. During this trip, you could watch Sat TV or bring up information on the flight. The information gave you trivia items like your altitude and speed. Both values matched my GPS very closely. In fact, I was a bit amazed that they synced so closely.

BTW.. I flew Delta and they never questioned my use of the GPS on the flight.

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I was always curious about

I was always curious about this. I wasn't sure if the little GPSr's we use were able to track speeds that high or if you'd need an aviation grade GPS to do this.

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wow!

thanasi2471 wrote:
alandb wrote:

Wow ... impressive. Did your friend say how well the Garmin speed matched the instruments on the F-22A Raptor?

Yes, I asked him how off was it from his instruments. He said it was + or - 20MPH. It was fluctuating during the flight at Mach 2.4.

So, that is pretty accurate. I wish I could fly, I wish I could touch the sky, I dream about it every night and day, Spread my wings and fly away. LOL.

Yea, I'll say that's impressively accurate! -

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nightrider --Nuvi's 660 & 680--

Took my 200

with me on a flight fro DFW to Chicago last Thursday, and recorded 590 MPH on a MD80. Also, I looked in the back of the in flight magazine for the list of electronic devices that are banned from use on the flight and a GPS is not listed.

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Not doing anything worth a darn.

Nuvi 205

601 MPH on a flight from DFW to PHL on an AA MD-80 somewhere over TN/KY state line. Those planes may be old, but they are always pretty fast.

Tried it again on a couple Northwest CRJ900's coming back from Ottawa to Detroit and then from Detroit to DFW. Both flights, I was lucky to see 350 MPH

Jeff

No "aviation grade" GPS required

sully213 wrote:

I was always curious about this. I wasn't sure if the little GPSr's we use were able to track speeds that high or if you'd need an aviation grade GPS to do this.

I've been using automotive or general purpose GPSRs on aircraft since 2001. In fact, my first GPS was a Garmin GPS II Plus that I used to track my position as I flew on the AMC rotator from Norfolk, VA to Bahrain (during that 26+ hour long flight).

Every unit that I've owned, that had a battery capability, has been able to display speed (and altitude) without a problem. Some have been faster to get a fix than others however.

Land Speed

Will Miss POI serve as a character witness at my trial?

tried to record flying

tried to record flying speed, but i was sitting in aisle, and couldn't pick up a signal...sad

83 and 608

I had the land speed of 83mph in Michigan and the 608mph air speed on a flight from Chicago to Newark.
I like to have a window seat on airplanes. I usually put my 760 in a travel case and put it on the tray. I'm always afraid that I'll somehow leave it behind though. I put a lanyard on the case and wrap it on my wrist. I once spilled the last ounce of a cup of coffee when I carelessly reached up to scratch my nose. I'm looking for a solution to that problem, which will cause me some new problem.

One suggestion

edwardw66 wrote:

I once spilled the last ounce of a cup of coffee when I carelessly reached up to scratch my nose. I'm looking for a solution to that problem, which will cause me some new problem.

If you cut off your nose, you won't need to scratch it.

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Lanyard

hook the lanyard to your belt.

That otta do it

EARL-M wrote:

hook the lanyard to your belt.

That should work-

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nightrider --Nuvi's 660 & 680--

On my motorcycle I've gone

On my motorcycle I've gone 926mph. The calculation is a point to point so if the road is curved, the speed caclulation is distorted

Jersey Dave

Motorcycle

I'm amazed you could hold on at 926MPH - it must have been a very straight road.

motorcycle

Maybe he was setting a speed record on the salt flats?

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excessive speeds

JerseyDave wrote:

On my motorcycle I've gone 926mph. The calculation is a point to point so if the road is curved, the speed caclulation is distorted

Jersey Dave

That sounds like it must've been in the mountains and the GPS couldn't maintain a consistent satellite lock. It must have missed a few sample points and when it finally locked again, you were a long way from the last accurate sample point.

On my Nuvi, it samples once every second. If it misses one point, then the speed registers as double at the next point. If it misses a series of points, it assumes I am standing still at the last point, then once it does get a good signal again, it figures I have suddenly jumped the distance to the new point.

Also, a curvy road may skew the samples slightly, but if anything, it would make you appear to be going slower than you actually are. The samples are calculated in a straight line, so if you are travelling in an arc, you would be covering more distance and at a higher speed than the GPS would register from straight line point to point.

Jeff

Wouldn't have even thought to try GPS on airplane!

This topic is very interesting, I would have never thought to try my GPS on an airplane! Lol

I've seen seemingly random

I've seen seemingly random high three digit numbers on the road as well.

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It's just for fun!

dalger3 wrote:

This topic is very interesting, I would have never thought to try my GPS on an airplane! Lol

It's just for fun!

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nightrider --Nuvi's 660 & 680--

top or max speed

Mysteriously our nuvi 660 showed 153 as the max speed, which caught my eye since my car is capable and I wondered if my wife decided to drive that fast. However, now is says 260, which, my car is obviously not capable of. Wonder if it's on the blink?!

zee Plane

Had a ball with my Nuvi 680 on a recent flight to AZ. I got to see the St. Louis Arch out the window!

We didn't get over 600 mph. Just under 500 on the westward flight, and about 550 on the eastbound flight.

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Galaxy NoteII, nüvi® 680

Top Speed

My Nuvi recorded 708 mph on a flight from Dallas/FtW to BWI. Top speed in a car was 110 mph on the autobahn between Munich and Stuttgart. I have not been on the unrestrited autobahn, yet!

Russ Potee

551 on a bullet train in

551 on a bullet train in Japan
193 in an Evo going through New Mexico to Texas
661 on a flight to Indiana

lets take one on a space shuttle! see what happens lol

~165 on land, --Vett.

~165 on land, --Vett.

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nightrider --Nuvi's 660 & 680--

Fastest Air speed Seen

561 mph on a trip from Burbank to Phoenix with a tail wind.

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dbeacco

zzzippin!

dbeacco wrote:

561 mph on a trip from Burbank to Phoenix with a tail wind.

That's haulin!

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nightrider --Nuvi's 660 & 680--

I had 602 from Lihue back to

I had 602 from Lihue back to Phoenix. I do like to ask it for directions while I'm up there. I figure eventually she is going to quit 'recalculating'!!!

Mach

mjshaw11 wrote:

I've seen about 16.7x that amount on a downhill mach run.

I've seen over 800 knots ground speed before in my airplane. No pics though so it doesn't count. I'll have to bring my Garmin along next time.

IAD - SFO

Finally got a chance to use my Nuvi 755t on a flight from Dulles to SF - had to turn it on for short periods of time and then turn it off because battery life is so dismal. Top speed I captured was 501MPH. Most of the trip was at about 30,000' but we did climb to ~37,000' at one point. We followed I-80 for a long time and then flew between I70 & I80 after we passed Denver. The intermittant track record shows that we generally flew a straight path except for one S turn. It was also interesting to note my waypoints as we flew near them.

Altitude errors

I was driving from Aledo to Moline Illinois, about 25 miles away. I noticed I was in Minnesota and 650 feet below sea level. 10 seconds later I was back on US94. The MPH did not change from 55.

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Land Speeds

my Nuvi 200W is currently living in it's second car, my top land speed in the first car was 98 MPH on I-69 near Fort Wayne, IN in a 2001 Chevy Impala 3.4L V6. My current top land speed was achieved in my current car when I was running late to my wedding rehearsal, the speed is 105 MPH on I-64 near Evansville, IN in a 2004 3.9L V6 40th Anniversary Mustang.

on a side note has anyone else had their moving average and overall average speeds get all wonky when they achieved triple digit top speeds?

Now That's what I'm talking about....

nightrider wrote:

~165 on land, --Vett.

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99

Quite a while back I was heading to Columbia MO from St. Louis in the Mustang. Passed a few cars and got on the throttle a bit more than I should looked up at the max speed and saw 99 - OOPS. Glad there were no Smokies around.........

-nope-

Dlburch wrote:

...on a side note has anyone else had their moving average and overall average speeds get all wonky when they achieved triple digit top speeds?

No.

Done it lots of times, too!

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nightrider --Nuvi's 660 & 680--

137 mph..!!

137 mph is my fastest.. or at least that's what the speedometer said. Don't know how accurate that would be if it was clocked by a speed gun.

Talking about speed guns....

A couple of years ago Mrs. Nuvi1300WTGPS and I were driving back into Florida from visiting our Daughters and Grand-kids up North. Crossed into Florida (on I-95 North of Jacksonville) and was clocked at 103 mph.

FHP was real nice about it. Seeing he could have cited me for Speeding, Reckless Driving (going 30 mph over the posted speed limit), impounding the vehicle and a few others.. he let me off with just a ticket for Speeding @ 99 mph, because if he wrote me up for anything more he would have had to write all the rest.

I still got away fairly easy. Went to 4 hour traffic school and received NO (zero) points on my record.. plus NO increase in my insurance costs. I'm looking at my license right now and at the bottom toward the middle it says: "Safe Driver".

The extra $30 or so for the driving school (on top of the $100 and something speeding fine) was well worth it. I don't know about other states but Florida lets you do that 5 times withing a several year period before it starts to hurt.

Now that I'm a "Old Fart" wink retired person for the past couple of years I don't drive as fast as I use to. Hey.. don't have a job I need to go to anymore so I just cruise along (a couple of miles) above the speed limit (so I don't get another ticket). After all.. Mrs. and I have all the time in the world now to come and go in whatever time is needed.

Nuvi1300WTGPS

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I'm not really lost.... just temporarily misplaced!

Wow!

Nuvi1300WTGPS wrote:

137 mph is my fastest.. or at least that's what the speedometer said. Don't know how accurate that would be if it was clocked by a speed gun.

Talking about speed guns....

A couple of years ago Mrs. Nuvi1300WTGPS and I were driving back into Florida from visiting our Daughters and Grand-kids up North. Crossed into Florida (on I-95 North of Jacksonville) and was clocked at 103 mph.

FHP was real nice about it. Seeing he could have cited me for Speeding, Reckless Driving (going 30 mph over the posted speed limit), impounding the vehicle and a few others.. he let me off with just a ticket for Speeding @ 99 mph, because if he wrote me up for anything more he would have had to write all the rest.

I still got away fairly easy. Went to 4 hour traffic school and received NO (zero) points on my record.. plus NO increase in my insurance costs. I'm looking at my license right now and at the bottom toward the middle it says: "Safe Driver".

The extra $30 or so for the driving school (on top of the $100 and something speeding fine) was well worth it. I don't know about other states but Florida lets you do that 5 times withing a several year period before it starts to hurt.

Now that I'm a "Old Fart" wink retired person for the past couple of years I don't drive as fast as I use to. Hey.. don't have a job I need to go to anymore so I just cruise along (a couple of miles) above the speed limit (so I don't get another ticket). After all.. Mrs. and I have all the time in the world now to come and go in whatever time is needed.

Nuvi1300WTGPS

Nice!!

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nightrider --Nuvi's 660 & 680--

Unexplained high speeds

With my iQue I would occasionally have some obscenely high max speed pop up. If I downloaded the track I would find a single point on the track that was some distance from my actual path. Unit would calculate time and distance and come up with escape velocity numbers.

Motorhome on roids

I've seen 125+ on my 7200 in the motorhome. Lost signals in forested area's and tunnels sure make for interesting stats.

Fastest terrestrial speed on my old nuvi

487 mph.
Got this in downtown San Francisco. I think the tall buildings confused the gps into thinking I moved a couple of streets over in a split second. It locked onto my location again in a few seconds, but the top speed had been recorded. smile

586 mph

586 mph at about 32,000 ft. Boston to Cincinnati aboard a CRJ 900.

That's gittin right with it!

--That's gittin right with it!

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nightrider --Nuvi's 660 & 680--

Mine was 168mph in a C172

Mine was 168mph in a C172 airplane

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Shooter :)

Puny, if you ask an Old Man !

I'm talking about Santa, of course !

An engineer has worked out the fine details of Santa's annual trip delivering toys to all the good boys and girls in the world. It's easy to see why the man in the red suit only works one day a year -- it's an exhausting one!

The engineer concludes Santa must visit 108 million homes worldwide. Assuming he travels from east to west, to maximize his Christmas day to 31 hours, Mr. Claus must still work really, really fast:

This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house.

He's also going to have to travel really fast, which is a downer, as the author notes, because a conventional reindeer's top speed is about 15 mph:

This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second--3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second.

The author then allocates 2 pounds of weight for presents and toys for each child. The resulting sleigh weighs 500 thousand tons, not including the man with a jolly laugh:

On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them--Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).

So I believe most of ya can go in their corner and cry, now... You'll NEVER reach that speed - and my Old Buddy's been doing it for an estimated sixteen CENTURIES !

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97 MPH in one of my cars,

97 MPH in one of my cars, according to GPS. Not too shabby considering it's a diesel.

MAX speed

My fastest max speed is currently 3,727 miles per hour smile For some reason my GPS had satellite lock while it thought I was in the Pacific Ocean, then quickly realized that it was in PA instead and adjusted accordingly.

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Streetpilot C340 Nuvi 2595 LMT

Max Speed on land

I hit 130 mph with a KY State Patrol escort leading a caravan of Corvettes with Wounded Warriors back to Fort Campbell, KY from a tour of the Corvette Plant and National Corvette Museum. I had a goal of 150 mph but my wounded passenger appeared to not like the speed as he nervously stated "I've never been this fast on the ground before" so I backed off. Another time, I hit 140 mph on a I-575 north of Canton, GA.

BTW, the GPS is confused if you turn it off and move a substantial distance before turning it back on. It apparently calculates the distance in zero time lapsed.

Did the engineer account for the bad kids who got coal?

spera wrote:

I'm talking about Santa, of course !

An engineer has worked out the fine details of Santa's annual trip delivering toys to all the good boys and girls in the world. It's easy to see why the man in the red suit only works one day a year -- it's an exhausting one!

This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000th of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house.

The author then allocates 2 pounds of weight for presents and toys for each child. The resulting sleigh weighs 500 thousand tons, not including the man with a jolly laugh:

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NEOhioGuy - Garmin 2639, MIO Knight Rider, TomTom (in Subaru Legacy), Nuvi 55, DriveSmart 51, Apple CarPlay maps

Were you on that list, by any chance ?

And yes, it had been taken into account.

Now a different story emerged...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57346770-71/scientist-reve...

I'll let you comment, the grandfather in me tends to enjoy that explanation.

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Speed

Wish I would have had one of these new fangled devices back when I was flying fast movers for the Air Force. On what we would call FCF flights to check things after maintenance it was not abnormal to get up above Mach 2. Fun old days as they say.

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Dudlee
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