In the late 1968 or 69 I took a normaly asperated Piper Apache up to 20,300 . Tho owner of the plane had just installed a large camera in the back seat area and was using it for aerial surveys and wanted to see how high it would go.We had oxygen and were up there for about an hour with the mixtures just about back to the shutoff and making very gentle turns for fear of stalling. That day was the first picture with the airlpane and camera over Valdosta GA. at 20300. This same plane made the aerial surveys of Disney World before they started construction of Disney World.
Jack Cooper > [Original Message] > From: D F Lively <riksh...@interl.net> > To: KRnet <kr...@mylist.net> > Date: 3/28/2006 11:49:05 PM > Subject: Re: KR> nice day-visit/service ceiling > > Brian: > > I have had a 172 to 12,500 more than once and a 182 to more than 15,000 ft > traversing the San Gabrial mountains over Mt. Baldy in So. Calif. On my trips > back to CA from the midwest I would routinely go up to 12,500 traversing the > ridge between Las Vegas and Santa Fe NM. I also have made many trips to > Prescott AZ from So. CA that required altitudes above 10,000 ft to give > comfortable terrain clearance in the often turbulent air between Prescott & the > Colorado River at Parker and Lake Havesau City AZ. I have personally determined > the service cieling of a 172 to be between 14,000 & 14,500 ft so at 12,500 I > would be crowding its capability pretty good > > I know that the Sport Plane regs say 10,000 ft but that in high country can get > you in a lot of trouble if you are held to it. Perhaps the whole idea is to > keep Sport Pilots out of high country. Personally I never had a problem up to > the 12,000 altitude for a sustained period but I am not a smoker and do not have > a breating problem and 10,000 ft has always been the recomended cieling for > smokers. > > Don > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Brian Kraut wrote: > > > I saw some formula a while back that would compute your service ceiling > > (when you can get a max of 100 FPM climb for those who forgot) when you > > input your climb rate and altitude at some lower altitude. Does anyone know > > where to find it? I did a time to climb test in the Stang last week (end of > > the runway to 10,000 in under 13 minutes) and found that I was still going > > up 500 FPM at 13,500. I would love to know what my ceiling would compute > > to, but I don't have the oxygen to try it. > > > > Brian Kraut > > Engineering Alternatives, Inc. > > www.engalt.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net]On > > Behalf Of Joe H Horton > > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 7:09 PM > > To: kr...@mylist.net > > Subject: Re: KR> nice day-visit > > > > > different places to make a gradual turn, or keep it going straight. > > > I took > > > mine to 15,000' the other day, and it was still climbing at > > > something like > > > 300' per minute at that altitude. > > > > > Mark, > > What indicated airspeed were you climbing at?? I took mine to 10500 last > > night and was climbing at 400 at 110 mph indicated. Sure was nice view > > from 50miles from Philly it seemed like I was looking right down in the > > streets. > > > > Joe Horton, Coopersburg, Pa. > > joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com > > > > _______________________________________ > > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > > > _______________________________________ > > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
