Great picture,Mark! Makes me "home sick" for the nice summer weather here so I can get out in the KR again . Won't be long now! Cheers Chris
Sent from my iPad > On Mar 17, 2016, at 10:44 PM, Mark Langford via KRnet <krnet at > list.krnet.org> wrote: > > KRnetHeads, > > Here's a quick report on a flight I made down to my father's grass strip > yesterday, which is 80'x3600', and not a bad place to fly out of. I'm sure I > didn't use half of it, either landing or taking off. There are trees on one > end, and it's uphill toward the trees, so it's pretty much a one-way strip > that works quite well. > > On the trip down I was burning 3.4 gph while doing 145mph True AirSpeed at > 7500' on a nearly "standard" day. That's 43mpg, and getting there pretty > quick. TAS is irrespective of head or tailwind, so this is a repeatable > result. The trip was completely uneventful otherwise, except the hazy skies > allowed me to wander all over the place. I need an autopilot to keep me on > course and at altitude! > > See enclosed photo for a nice view of the grass strip, with N891JF ready to > go. The strip is situated between three lakes. See > http://www.n56ml.com/flights/jan2006farm/ for a better view of that. > > -- > Mark Langford > ML at N56ML.com > http://www.n56ml.com > > <160316_017m.jpg> > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options
