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At Least He's Honest. Would This Attitude Have 'Saved' Light Airplane Business??



 
 
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Old December 20th 04, 10:13 PM
Michael
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Sad, I suppose...but so are the companies who
sell split rim truck wheels, or for that matter, light twins that

won't climb
out at full legal gross from Denver to people (with families) they

know are not
Chuck Yeager. Are we any worse?


Yes. You're much worse. I don't know anything about split rim truck
wheels, but I know rather a lot about light twins that won't climb out
at full legal gross from Denver (which is most of them). I have
hundreds of hours in several of them. Do you?

The light twin that won't climb out on one engine at full gross from
Denver will cheerfully hold altitude 4000 ft above the hills of
Arkansas (and 500 ft above a cloud deck) after one engine takes a dump
in cruise - and you don't need to be Chuck Yeager to make it do it. In
fact, it was doing it while being flown by a very lightly coached
student pilot. If I had to have a twin that WOULD climb out from
Denver at full gross on one engine, I couldn't afford it and would be
flying a single. That would have made my life really interesting when
the engine failed 500 ft above a solid cloud deck over the hills of
Arkansas.

Or, to put it in general terms - you would take away from me the
capability to keep flying 95% of the time, in order to what? To keep
me from needing to make a decision no to try it the other 5% of the
time? When it's obvious from reading the flight manual that it won't
work anyway?

The company that made this light twin did something very useful - it
provided an airplane for me and people like me that would often (but
not always) give us options not available in a single engine airplane -
and you would fault them for not building the airplane so that it would
ALWAYS give those options - at a price and operating cost we can't
afford. That's nuts. They produced a valuable product, and it would
be a shame if some lawyer shut them down - which, unfortunately, is in
large part what happened.

Michael

 




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