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avtar412
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Location: New Zealand
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 Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 12:11 am Post subject: High Altitude |
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Well, flew my fox over our near by mountain today, 9500ft. I was over the top in less than 15 min from takeoff. i have a turbocharged engine so didn't seem to have much drop off in performance up there and didn't feel washy on the controls at all? I shut the engine down on the decent and poked the nose over, no way would that prop turn, 2.2:1 PSRU. Was a real buzz experience as weather was CAVU and calm. John A. NZ
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kitfoxmike
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject: Re: High Altitude |
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Yup, these little birds are real nice. I've taken mine up to 11000 without trouble. I like taking off from my field, which is at 2000ft agl and turn out at the end of the runway and climb to 1000ft agl to clear the hill(2900agl) off to the right, am usually at 1000 agl by the time I go over the radio towers. The breath taker is when I'm at a field that is in a hole and I take off, level after take off and get the speed up to 80 ias and pull up and turn out, generally 45 bank, Zoom up and over the trees, very fun.
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wingsdown(at)verizon.net
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 4:54 pm Post subject: High Altitude |
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With O2, I took my turbo subaru to 17,900 and she would have kept going.
Still had a 500FPM climb going. What was even a better Kodak pic was the
GPS showing 165GS. That didn't last when I made the turn back......long
decent for sure. Still glad I did it that once. I called mid field at
that altitude at L35. No one said a word. Probably thought someone was
just messing around.
Rick
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avtar412
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| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 1:06 am Post subject: Re: High Altitude |
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Wow! I've got a bit to go. Rick, was that you that answered me about the trim jack? I mailed you back but had the wrong address as it came back? Rgds, John
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