Best Single Pilot IFR Plane

On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:13:25 GMT, "Mike Rapoport"
wrote:


"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
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On 07 Dec 2003 16:10:52 GMT, (paul k. sanchez)
If I can make a slight correction on your posting. TBM700 C2 model is
currently
$2.6, we don't use the "m" word. 300 ktas is available only at FL260 ISA
@ 100%

:-))

torque, and quite honestly with a lot of antennas not present. Generaly
we fly
the ship at normal cruise FL280, FL290, and FL310. Torque is 85% at
FL280, 83%
at FL290, and 79% at FL310, all at ISA of course. Speeds that we see are
265 to
285 ktas. Fuel flow 47 to 41 gph.

Hummm...with a turbocharged IO-540 I could get that out of my G-III
(as in glasair, not gulfstream), but in the G-III it's a tad more
difficult to get up and stretch your legs, or take a "potty break".
:-))

You'll have to fix the return add due to dumb virus checkers
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair?)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Wish you well.

paul k. sanchez, cfii-mei

265 to 285 in a Glasair III?
Yup! Course thats MPH and not knots.
POH lists 282 at 8,000 using a stock 300 HP K1A5 Lycombing at 75%
That's pretty close to the figures I was seeing when I flew N540HP at
Oshkosh.
OTOH the turbocharged version will cruise at something like 360 plus
MPH at 25,000.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair?)
www.rogerhalstead.com
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Mike
MU-2