Doing a flight from my hometown to St. Louis in msfs and a UPS767 and a frontier airlines A320Neo took off a few minutes ahead of me. Im in a 737-700 flying as Southwest Airlines. Nothing new seeing Frontier or UPS in my area. But what made me giggle was catching up and then PASSING both aircraft! UPS had a solid 5 minute lead before my takeoff roll started and Frontier had about 2 minutes of lead. Both UPS and Frontier in this are REAL flights going on right now. Ive no idea how heavy UPS is, but its a 767 freighter im sure its heavy. Frontier is a low cost carrier so im certain that A320Neo is packed. As for me? 140 passengers and 7700 in payload. Im a HEAVY 737-700 had to trim to 6.90 on my horizontal stab for take off, most ive used in a LONG time. Im amused im going this quick in the climb. Winds are 262/081 quartering tailwind left to right tail to nose. 489kts ground speed and 449kts total airspeed nearing cruise now. Going to settle in at 0.81Mach soon as i level. Climb was 0.782Mach to FL370. At cruise, VNAV off. Auto throttle on MCP at .81 Mach. Too St. Louis!
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landed in st louis and parked at A15. Was a nice flight
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