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Originally Posted by Bigtime
Dunno, took it off of the Reddit Aviation page. Obviously a crazy strong headwind causing the low groundspeed.
Back in my flying days I was up in the NE practice area (Irricana/Beiseker area) and we had a really strong wind aloft, turned into it and put the 172 into slow flight, managed to get going backwards!
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I've done that while flying a glider before. It was simultaneously cool ("Neat, I have negative groundspeed!") and terrifying ("Do I have enough altitude to get back to the landing area?").