Jenny, I've flown a couple of flapless Citabrias in England. One had the 150hp carby engine and the other was fuel injected, maybe a 160hp. We operated from a small airfield with 950yds, being the longest run available and then a climb over trees at each end. They were nice to fly, easy to operate but lacked grunt because both engines were well into their hours. Their performance would be badly affected by the high temp experienced in summer in Oz.
When I started gliding (late 60's) we used a 130 hp Tiger moth which was good with the old gliders we had. Then we used 150 hp super cubs and these were good in their day. A lot of these were upgraded (at other clubs) to 180hp fixed pitch to get 700ft/min climb rates. With the advent of glass fibre two seaters weighing around 900lbs better tugs were needed and Pawnees were used at the smaller clubs (like ours). Clubs operating from long runways in the UK still used Robin D400 180hp tugs because of their fuel efficiency and low maintenance costs compared with the Pawnee John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny Ganderton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Aus-Soaring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 2:14 PM Subject: [Aus-soaring] Glider Tugs > Has anyone any experience of using a Citabria 160hp 7GCBC as a tug? Is > 160 hp enough? > > Jenny > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
