wrote: > Greetings, > =20 > As I build my IV-P kit, I=92m always watching with anticipation the other I= V-P planes out there and how you guys are using them. One thing that has st= ruck me is that it appears most of you with piston IV-P=92s are flying them a= round in the low- to mid-teens rather than in the flight levels. I=92m curi= ous why this is the case=85 Trips not long enough to justify the climb? Yo= u want to stay VFR? Performance or handling issues up high? Etc. > =20 > Would love to hear from some of you on the operational practicalities of u= sing your IV-P as a X/C traveling machine. My expectation is that I=92ll be= using mine a lot on lots of 1,000nm X/C flights and am planning to fly in t= he FL220-FL250 range. > =20 > Thoughts? > =20 > Dan Olsen > N320DK =96 320MKII, 700hrs > IV-P in progress --Apple-Mail-505AB2A9-8AA2-488C-A91F-61E232DDE5EC Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

The efficiency gains must e= xceed the headwind components to make it worthwhile. There is always a headw= ind when I fly. Cursed? Sometimes it is worth it to get above the cloud deck= . I like 16000-17000. And if it's clear I tend to file and go VFR with fligh= t following depending on destination and airspace.

Typing and g= rammar errors courtesy of Siri

On Jan 5, 2013, at 13:33,= "Dan & Kari Olsen" <olsen25@c= omcast.net> wrote:

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Greetings,

As I build my IV-P kit, I=E2=80=99m always watching= with anticipation the other IV-P planes out there and how you guys are usin= g them. One thing that has struck me is that it appears most of you wi= th piston IV-P=E2=80=99s are flying them around in the low- to mid-teens rat= her than in the flight levels. I=E2=80=99m curious why this is the cas= e=E2=80=A6 Trips not long enough to justify the climb? You want t= o stay VFR? Performance or handling issues up high? Etc.

Wo= uld love to hear from some of you on the operational practicalities of using= your IV-P as a X/C traveling machine. My expectation is that I=E2=80=99= ll be using mine a lot on lots of 1,000nm X/C flights and am planning to fly= in the FL220-FL250 range.
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Thoughts?

Dan Olsen
N320DK =E2=80=93 320MKII, 700hrs
IV-P in progress

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