No particular mission, IO. I'm just thinking ahead beyond my current bird, wondering where I'd go next. My current 'plane will hopefully get me through the particular trips I have in mind over the next 18 months, but someone asked me today what I'd fancy next : and I must admit it's not an easy question.
Having something with good performance and load-shifting abilities now, I'd be looking to be able to retain those capabilities to a larger extent. Don't mind trimming a bit, but not too much !
Then there's the AVGAS situation. It would be great to find a single which runs on A1, but which meets those criteria above : but short of something like a TBM700 - which would be ridiculously OTT - I can only think of one option, which is a turbine conversion of what I have now, and this is (a) very expensive and (b) only available on a N register (not that that would stop me if it was the only place to go).
Hence the trawl !
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