Last week I made a flight that "expanded my horizons" a bit. I flew non
stop 474 miles, and still had an hour reserve fuel left. My goal was
to photograph the pond dam at the "Hallmark Farm" on I-65 north of
Birmingham. My wife had seen some large PVC pipe on the dam and a
backhoe on our last trip by there, so I wanted to see if they had
installed a "siphon spillway" like we intend to do at my father's lake.
Once I got that done I thought I might as well fly down to my father's
place and look at recent tornado damage, as well as brown pine trees
that might indicate a Pine Bark Beetle problem. I didn't land (my father
wasn't "home" anyway,) so I just did a U-turn and headed back home. I
took a side trip over the town I grew up in to take some more pictures,
and twice along the way had to climb steeply to 5000' to avoid airspace,
so that reduced my average speed. Bottom line is that I flew a total of
474 miles non-stop with three climbs to 9500' and 10,500', all the way
around Class C airspace twice. I wasn't in much of a hurry so had
throttled back to about 2900 rpm and maintained 130 mph True Airspeed
when straight and level, but the trip average (considering the climbs)
is about 120.5 mph. When I got home, I still had 3.3 gallons in the
tank, which means I burned 2.72 gph, getting 44.3 mpg for the trip, in
less than four hours. Not bad for a 30 year old KR2. See enclosed map....
--
Mark Langford
m...@n56ml.com
http://www.n56ml.com
Huntsville, AL
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