LifeAfterAviation
My decision was to divert to a close airport with a major Cessna service centre and that was the right call basically because the problem was fixed and we continued some 4 hours later.
But this got me thinking about how I would plan a flight with the gear down had I had to move it empty some 600 nm?
On a 600 nm flight I would normally be up at FL360/370 what would I do with the gear down?
What level would I fly at? If there was weather ahead would I still stay low or climb over the weather?
would i stay relatively low and accept the high fuel burns especially with higher N1 against drag or go higher gear down and get lower fuel burns and higher TAS?
Infact compared to clean how high could I go ?
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 2nd Jan 2014 at 22:44.