Sun N Fun?

Incidentally, at that throttle/prop setting, Atlas can stay in the air
NINE HOURS!

Yes, but does it go backwards in a headwind?

Jose
--
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Jay Honeck wrote:

In order to keep pace with their Skyhawk we were throttled back to 20
inches of MP, and 2000 RPM.


What's your IAS at that power setting? I get about 150-155 MPH,
depending on temp, burning about 8 gph. I would get about 10 hours and
have a 30 minute reserve.

Newps wrote:


Jay Honeck wrote:

In order to keep pace with their Skyhawk we were throttled back to 20
inches of MP, and 2000 RPM.


What's your IAS at that power setting? I get about 150-155 MPH,
depending on temp, burning about 8 gph. I would get about 10 hours and
have a 30 minute reserve.

Ah, Newps with his "mine is bigger than yours" post again...

In order to keep pace with their Skyhawk we were throttled back to 20
inches of MP, and 2000 RPM.

What's your IAS at that power setting? I get about 150-155 MPH,
depending on temp, burning about 8 gph. I would get about 10 hours and
have a 30 minute reserve.

I have no idea. I was focused entirely on maintaining position with
Brian's 172 (we got some GREAT air-to-air pix), and never looked. GPS
ground speed was about 105 - 110 knots.

It was very, er, leisurely.

We were low, so I couldn't really lean back much. If we had gone up
to 6500 feet, I could easily have leaned to 8 gph at that power
setting, which, with 84 gallons, would allow a bladder-busting 10+
hour endurance.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

("Jay Honeck" wrote)
Yep. We flew as a flight of two with Brian & Christine in their new (to
them) Cessna 172 today...


Huh?


Montblack

Yep. We flew as a flight of two with Brian & Christine in their new (to
them) Cessna 172 today...

Huh?

They bought a 1/5th share in an old Skyhawk, just to keep Brian
current while he's building the RV-10.

The engine is run out, the paint is bad, the interior is old -- but it
was cheap, and (best of all) the other partners all own other
airplanes. Thus, Brian is literally the ONLY one flying it, which is
just about the best possible situation.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Apr 8, 6:57 pm, john smith wrote:
In article . com,

"bdl" wrote:
I tried to make it happen, but no such luck. We have a trip planned a
trip from 1H0 to KDTS to let my little one (almost 3) experience a
real beach (as opposed to the sandbox out back). I tried to work out
a side trip to Lakeland, but I couldn't make it work. At 120kts its
2.5 hours each way (unless I cut the corner, overwater, something not
in my personal risk tolerance). Which means an overnight there, plus
nap issues for my daughter, etc.

Not an issue, she will sleep while you fly.
My 14 year old is alseep within 20 minutes of liftoff and doesn't awaken
until I pull the power back for descent.


Yeah I went with that argument for the first 2 years of her life and
flying. When she hit 2 though her sleep patterns were much more in
line with, which nap could I take that would be most disruptive to my
parents?

The last 2 hour flight we took to Chicago she was so tired but fought
sleeping. She finally nodded off when intercepted the ILS into KPWK.

It was more the issue of my wife having to walk around all those
"boring airplanes".

But hey, we'll be there a week, maybe I could still convince her.

It was more the issue of my wife having to walk around all those
"boring airplanes".

Hoo boy. This is a lot more serious than we thought. It looks like
some major attitude adjustments are in order.

Good luck!

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Apr 9, 2:50 pm, "Jay Honeck" wrote:
It was more the issue of my wife having to walk around all those
"boring airplanes".

Hoo boy. This is a lot more serious than we thought. It looks like
some major attitude adjustments are in order.

Good luck!


Not all of us can live in the nirvana of fighting for flight time with
our spouses. :-)

I'm working on my daughter. Look for her soon at Airventure 20??!

Brian

bdl wrote:
It was more the issue of my wife having to walk around all those
"boring airplanes".

It occurs to me that an enterprising wife could make, as the kids say,
"mad bank" by renting a passenger van and charging fares to other ladies
for day trips to the mall, spa, beach, etc. On the other hand, some
wives might see this as a challenge to spend as much at the mall as
their other half will spend on "airplane junk".

Matt Roberds