What is the speed of these aircraft?

[skydiverek 60]

Need the aircraft droping speed to fill my logbook for the jumps I made in Hawaii
- King-Air (Pacific Skydiving)
- Cessna (Skydive Hawaii)

How many mph?

[LongWayToFall 0]

What do you mean dropping speed? Type of aircraft should be the only thing that matters for your logbook.

[councilman24 36]

Speed can vary widely and is usually unimportant. Except to note Jet exits, high speed passes, etc.

BTW you didn't specify which King Air or which Cessna (172 to 208, just to list some of the jump aircraft)

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[skydived19006 4]

80 to 90 mph.

How simple is that?

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[JohanW 0]

Land miles, sea miles or metric miles?

It's never simple ..

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[skydiverek 60]

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What do you mean dropping speed? Type of aircraft should be the only thing that matters for your logbook.

Well, that may be true for whatever country you are in, but in my country there is a column in the logbook for 'Szybkosc samolotu' ('Aircraft speed').

[brettski74 0]

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Land miles, sea miles or metric miles?

???

Perhaps you mean (imperial) miles, nautical miles or kilometres?

I thought it was 80 to 90 knots, which is nautical miles per hour - at least for the cessna. The King Air is a faster plane and exit speed is usually higher as I understand. It certainly seemed to be a faster exit when I did exit one.

A nautical mile is roughly 1.125 miles, and roughly 1.8km.

[Bertt 0]

We exit from a King-Air about 95 knots indicated airspeed. Cessna 182 about 80 knots indicated. Those speeds can vary somewhat, but that should be close enough for your logbook.

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