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N280SA just spent a couple of weeks in the Alps. I think these two photos explain why...
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To be honest, as amazing as the pic in France is, the foggy picture in Scotland was also very beautiful. Maybe more so for riding a horse or a dirt bike or hiking than flying an airplane, but awesome nonetheless.
Enjoy the trip!
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To add some detail, the flight from Scotland took 6.5 hours and was CAVOK through England and France. Landed at Annemasse (near Geneva) with a good two hours' fuel in the tanks.
The flight back took longer against a headwind and I stopped for a couple of hours at my usual maintenance facility for a 50 hour (oil change, exhaust welding etc.).
It was unusually hot, well over 30 degrees C at altitudes over 6000 ft. The Froggies mostly use O-360 powered D140 Jodels in their mountains. We found that my MX-7-180 would land shorter but take off about the same. Where the Maule struggled was climb rate, and with 29" bushwheels anything over 12,000 ft density altitude required much patience and scraping valley walls for some "free" lift.
Landing anywhere that really needs bushwheels is forbidden in France, so extended gear and 8.50x6s would be more sensible...
The flight back took longer against a headwind and I stopped for a couple of hours at my usual maintenance facility for a 50 hour (oil change, exhaust welding etc.).
It was unusually hot, well over 30 degrees C at altitudes over 6000 ft. The Froggies mostly use O-360 powered D140 Jodels in their mountains. We found that my MX-7-180 would land shorter but take off about the same. Where the Maule struggled was climb rate, and with 29" bushwheels anything over 12,000 ft density altitude required much patience and scraping valley walls for some "free" lift.
Landing anywhere that really needs bushwheels is forbidden in France, so extended gear and 8.50x6s would be more sensible...
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How many stops?Njacko wrote:To add some detail, the flight from Scotland took 6.5 hours and was CAVOK through England and France. Landed at Annemasse (near Geneva) with a good two hours' fuel in the tanks...
As it is in EnglandNjacko wrote:Landing anywhere that really needs bushwheels is forbidden in France...
Nice pictures
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Annemasse LFLI is a French customs airport, so no need to stop en route. That's the beauty of BD's amazing aircraft. One can take off late-morning from a sheep-infested Scotch hill farm, wash the 31" ABWs in a Cumbrian reservoir, then land the other side of Switzerland in time for an early evening BBQ and help the locals drain their so-called Common Agricultural Policy "wine lake".Maulehigh wrote: How many stops?
Strewth! I wish I'd known that...Maulehigh wrote:As it is in EnglandNjacko wrote:Landing anywhere that really needs bushwheels is forbidden in France...
All the same, it's interesting how "forbidden" can mean different things to different people in different countries.
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