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Old 6th February 2011 | 14:01
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pistongone
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I flew G-TZEE from Earls Coln to Theux near Spa and back. The chap doing the check flight insisted running it @2100 rpm and low MAP, which gave about 105Kn. Coming back we upped it to something like 24 square and it gave about 115Kn. Compared to G-SARA an Archer we used from Elstree which would do about 125Kn at 2400 no wobbly prop!
The doors can be a pain in wind or rain and the yoke moves through a slightly strange axis, but not an issue, just strange? The interior is worlds apart from the usual stuff. Personally i prefer the 172 range for general usage, the back seats have a lot of leg room which i found out when cost sharing a flight and they can get into the shorter strips quite well. The TB10 doe's have an unusual starting procedure though, with alternator switches on and off in some sequence that i just followed, but didnt really make sense of. Perhaps IO540 knows what that is all about
But it is a nice plane and will impress non flyers a lot more than an old school hack, you pays your money etc!
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