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Post subject: Considering a Twin Baron!? Posted: 18 Dec 2017, 20:56 |
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Joined: 12/12/17 Posts: 18 Post Likes: +4 Location: Kuin
Aircraft: Baron 58TC
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I'm a new member of Beechtalk. My flying mission has changed recently to include several flights per year to Colorado. I have 750 plus hrs in Piper Lance and am IFR for nearly all of those hours. It's been a tremendous airplane for my flatland flying yet that Hershey Bar wing just doesn't cut it especially in the warm season. I'd like to be able to carry 2-3 adults passengers. So what do you all think twin or is there a single TC Bonanza?! Thanks. Kirk
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Post subject: Re: Considering a Twin Baron!? Posted: 18 Dec 2017, 22:43 |
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Joined: 11/20/14 Posts: 6751 Post Likes: +4966
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For me, in high density altitude flying it's the engine, not the wing, that runs out of performance on a normally aspirated plane. If you like the pa32 there are turbo versions. There's a turbo Senca if you want a relatively efficient twin. Here's a nice looking Piper viewtopic.php?f=43&t=144119&start=15If it were me, as a Bonanza fan, I'd look at a turbonormalized A36 over a Baron. Most light twins DO have excess HP, so if density altitude is taking X% of your power with the twin you're starting from a higher base. But with the the turbo, you stay at full power.
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Post subject: Re: Considering a Twin Baron!? Posted: 19 Dec 2017, 01:03 |
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Joined: 12/12/17 Posts: 18 Post Likes: +4 Location: Kuin
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Thanks Vince, I'm near KUIN.
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Post subject: Re: Considering a Twin Baron!? Posted: 19 Dec 2017, 07:19 |
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Joined: 05/11/10 Posts: 13091 Post Likes: +12765 Location: Indiana
Aircraft: Cessna 185, RV-7
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Username Protected wrote: Thanks Vince, I'm near KUIN. Had to look it up, but that's Quincy, Illinois. We used to go to a horse show there every summer.
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