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2nd airplane
But not necessarily because of the engine. My Bo runs at 45% power at 8
gph and gets 150 mph indicated with the 520. Around the local area, which is probably 75% of my flying I'm burning about 35% less gas than the 182 I used to have(8 vs 12.5 gph). Kind of an irrelevant point. The idea was that for a second bird, I would pick specifications as opposite as possible to my primary bird, if my primary bird fulfilled my cruise mission, then there is absolutely no point in considering cruise in my second bird and vice versa. He said he had a cruise ship already, If I had such a bird (My poor 140 isn't, I would then only see two options, either getting an extraordinarily expensive, ultra fun plane (Extra-300, Mig-17) or an extraordinarily cheap, fun plane, depending on how deep my pockets were. I assumed that this gentleman was not made of money, and hence, he would choose as I would and go with the inexpensive option, which would generally necessitate a smaller engine for thermodynamic/weight reasons, hence an O-320 or smaller. |
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