Ryan Larson writes: > I flew an Arrow-III up to Minneapolis and back this past weekend. Even with > a CAS of 135 kts, I had a GS of about 80-88 kts the whole way up to > Minneapolis at 6000 feet because of a cold front moving through. On the way > back, I had a great tailwind and at 9000 feet I was at 130 kts CAS and 194 > kts GS. With a top speed of 217 kts GS on a descent from 9000 to > 7000 feet.
Interesting. That's why people will pay for an extra few knots -- if you're flying into a 60kt headwind, a 120kt airplane is 1.5 times as fast as a 100kt airplane, for example. > If you have an idea of what types of numbers you would like to get in terms > of performance data.. I can try and get some on the Arrow and an Archer. I > also have manuals for the Arrow and the Archer if that would be helpful. Do > we have a central place we could store this stuff? Jon collects aero data at the JSBSim site. > Anyway.. congrats on the purchase. It looks like a nice > plane.. wish I had the guts to pull the trigger and buy my own > plane, but with the job market the way it is.. I can't afford to > make that purchase right now. Yes, I'm nervous as well, but you can look at it this way: a VFR 1960's PA-28-140 doesn't cost much more than new minivan, either to buy or to operate. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
