John,
Still the same girlfriend – I promised to stay below 20000 and we kept the oxygen masks really close…
If it is this warm (90 degrees or more on the ground) I can only climb with about 500 ft/min once I get above 15000 (32MAP, 2500 rpm) to keep the heads in the 370 to 385 range (using high boost).
In cruise I started with MAP30, TIT1630 and increased to MAP33.5, TIT1630, FF18.1, CHT377, OAT26, TAS275 - it also seems that on warm summer days my FF has to be at least 0.5 gal/hr less to get the same TIT/CHT than on a cool day.
Ralf
Ralf:
Same girlfriend?
John
Hi Fred,
This picture makes my rear window loss incident look like a training session for 4th graders. I am flying again (with girlfriend) but I am pretty sure I would have a very hard time convincing any passengers to get in the plane with me after this.
Although these decompression incidents are very frightening and look very spectacular I try to believe that they are a lot less threatening than flying slow in the pattern.
Ralf
Received this from a friend. Brings explosive Lancair decompression to a whole new dimension. Fred Moreno This was Frank Fry's Lancair IVPT until about 18 months ago. The new owner has been flying very high with a high pressurisation differential. On this occasion he had a bladder tank on the back seat and was flying from Perth direct to Hobart over a lot of water at FL250 when the right window blew out. He diverted to Adelaide where this photo was taken. |
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