It certainly looks like it could do the job....however
not sure which club wants to own the first $500k+ towplane




At 14:00 03 April 2005, Bruce Hoult wrote:
In article ,
Stefan wrote:

Chris Rollings wrote:

I can't think of any regularly used towplane that
will
achieve what you want.

A Pilatus PC6 will do this just nicely. Ok, agreed,
not exactly a
'regularly used towplane'.

Don't forget the NZ turbine cropduster offshoot being
sold for
skydiving, the PAC 750XL:

http://www.utilityaircraft.com/

Brake release to 12,000 ft takes 12 minutes with a
2 tonne load. The
plane without the skydivers (but with fuel & pilot)
weighs 1400 kg, so
it can presumably climb at over 2000 fpm lightly loaded.

Ground roll at MTOW is 1244 ft, so presumably considerably
less at
light weights.


Biggest problem: best rate of climb is at 95 knots,
best angle is at 85
knots.

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