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Great to hear others are getting in some quality Rocket time! I have been using
mine to commute home on weekends from Montana to Washington State Olympic Penninsula,
about an 800 mile round trip and have been seeing similar numbers. I
have Gamis and EI also and usually run LOP unless there is much of a headwind
to deal with. Its great to leave Montana at 5 local time and get home at 6 local
time, and use only 20 gallons of fuel.
I have 160 hours on it now since my first flight last summer, the more I fly it
the more I love it!
Kevin Shannon
N450KS
HR!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Ray <smokyray@rocketmail.com>
Sent: Mon, Sep 21, 2009 9:27 pm
Subject: Rocket-List: Trip Report FL-CO and back!
Gentlemen,
?The list has been pretty quiet so here is a trip report. We just flew our HR2
out to CO from our FL swamp strip home for our first vacation in a long 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 almost 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 excursions. I marveled
at the amazing numbers my 15 year-old girl posted. Despite her almost 1000
hour airframe, the efficiency was evident. I have GAMI injectors and an otherwise
stock airframe with big tires and wheel-pants for my off pavement operations.
Flying economy cruise the entire trip I still managed an average of 10.7
GPH at 179.7 knots GS. With 10 gallon tip tanks (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 at under 10GPH!?
I miss the F-16, but this is the next best thing!
Smokey
HR2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoJEX3hdXqw
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