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Old May 1st 09, 12:31 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Dylan Smith
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Default What's the bi-annual flight review all about?

On 2009-04-30, Ross wrote:
What was the cost of the A36 if I may ask and what did you usually fly
at 90kts?


Since it belonged to the instructor's brother-in-law, fortunately only
the cost of the fuel! (It burns 13.8 gph in cruise, at 170 knots. It has
GAMIjectors too which allows LOP operation. A fantastic plane...if only
I could afford one :-))

My usual mount is an Auster Autocrat built in late 1945. (It looks very
similar to the Taylorcraft BC-12, except it has flaps and the windows
are different - that's because the Austers from that period are British
built Taylorcrafts! However, instead of the Continental A-65 that you'd
expect to find in a BC-12, it has a 160 hp Lycoming O-320 which makes it
climb *rather better* and turns it into a really good aircraft for short
airfields and towing gliders. But not cruise an awful lot faster without
turning a lot of avgas into noise).

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