Smyth Sidewinder - cabin size
Hi all,
this is my first post on this forum and so I just introduce myself a little. My name is Heinz and I am from a place called Muenster in Germany (Europe, the other side of the pond). I am flying since I am 13 years old (started with gliders and now at the age of 45 I have logged some 1,500 hrs – mainly collected during the time when I went to university and when I was a flight instructor for PPL students at the same time (I was freelancing and collected some 600+ hrs training at that time). The planes I have flown are Mooney, Piper Arrows and all the Cessnas as well as French built planes. I have owned a gardan Horizon (French) and a Grumman AA-1 (the 1969 model with the early wing) in the past (the AA-1 was the best fun I ever had - however certainly a bit underpowerd). I now fly an Eggenfellner Subaru H-6 powered French built all wood Robin 2+2 seater which I have converted from a Lyco powered plane to the Eggenfellner Subaru H-6 with my friend Hans from the Netherlands (search for the callsign ´PH-ERD´ on youtube). The conversion was relatively easy and PH-ERD performs flawlessly since day one without weight penalty and without any cooling issues - if someone wants information on that let me know. After that enjoyable year of flying I realise that 95% of my flying is alone, 3% with one more person on board and ca. 2% with my family (wife, 2 kids at the age of 10 and 12). The family likes flying a lot and will not give up on PH-ERD for sure. However as I have got a partner in on PH-ERD I am now searching for a 2 seater for my trips like mentioned above as I would like to go faster than 125 to 130 kts TAS (that´s what the Robin does at 8 to 8.5 gals fuel flow per hr). I don´t want to go for a single seater as even when my kids won´t want to go where I go at the same time (say at the age of 16 or 18) I will travel with my wife (she is 5 ft 2" at 105 lb) than. So the mission statement is • VFR day, legs up to 330NM at ca. 145 kts TAS at 7 gals / hr • Carry me (I am 6 ft 2" at ca. 200 lb – and that´s the problem, I suppose) on board with 30 lb baggage and every now and than one light weight person like my wife plus a little luggage as well • In case of WX trouble I need an ADI and an autopilot like the TruTrak Digiflight VS I have now for comfort. AND HERE WE GO WITH MY QUESTION (sorry it took so long to get there): I am 6 ft 2" (1,87m) at ca. 200 lb (90 kg) and my body is 35.5" or 90cm tall when I sit - do I fit in a Sidewinder or not? I don´t know if I have one near me (Germany/Europe) to try. So – can you guys advise please. Many thanks, Heinz __________________ Eggenfellner H-6 powered 4-seat Robin, ´PH-ERD´ 130hrs since 1. SEP 2008 .... counting Homebased EDLT (Muenster-Telgte, Germany, Europe) |
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