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| Subject: | Trip Report FL-CO and back! |
Gentlemen,
-The list has been pretty quiet so here is a trip report. We just flew ou
r HR2 out to CO from our FL swamp strip home for our first vacation in a lo
ng time. The plan was to camp on a grass strip in the Rockies at 8250' MSL
for a week of fall colors, camping and hiking and return home, round trip a
lmost 3500 NM. We also planned to land on as many grass strips en route as
we could.-- Mission accomplished, well except for a a couple of paved e
xcursions. I marveled at the amazing numbers my 15 year-old girl posted. De
spite her almost 1000 hour airframe, the efficiency was evident. I have GAM
I injectors and an otherwise stock airframe with big tires and wheel-pants
for my off pavement operations. Flying economy cruise the entire trip I sti
ll managed an average of 10.7 GPH at 179.7 knots GS. With 10 gallon tip tan
ks (54 total) we did a leg from Dallas to central CO and still landed with
16 gallons! When we left two fellow campers with highly modified C-185
and C-206's watched us leave. We rolled about 600 feet and jumped off for
a, well, Rocket launch! Several times on the home leg I saw 200+ Knots GS a
t under 10GPH!-
I miss the F-16, but this is the next best thing!
SmokeyHR2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoJEX3hdXqw=0A=0A=0A
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