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Old 3rd Oct 2011, 01:01
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Vertical Freedom
 
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Namaste Decredenza,

I landed with 6% on the gauge.

At around 4-6,500' amsl we are burning 10% every 20 minutes so 162 liters per hour.

But above 10,000' burn rate goes down too 20% per hour, so 6% was 32 litres, = 33 minutes of flight time left.....

20 minutes is legal here, But I don't like to land with less than 30 minutes in the tank. Needed the machine light to pull off the rescue as DA @ 16,500' was 18,377' pretty high for an ole' straight model AS350B.

Great machine, very smooth, stable, reliable & predictable. Always does better than the performance graphs.

VF
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