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Post subject: Re: Lancair IV-p  Posted: 14 Feb 2017, 13:03 |
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Username Protected wrote: turbines cannot land on grass Yup, no grass at all. Attachment: c57e14b76674b500d6c75e81ffd848582d004578.jpg Mike C.
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Post subject: Re: Lancair IV-p Posted: 14 Feb 2017, 13:07 |
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Username Protected wrote: turbines cannot land on grass Yup, no grass at all. Attachment: c57e14b76674b500d6c75e81ffd848582d004578.jpg Mike C.
I built my hangar sized to fit an MU-2. That's exactly what I will own when I own the airstrip one day...
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Post subject: Re: Lancair IV-p Posted: 22 Mar 2017, 10:14 |
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GETTING CLOSE!! Maybe a week or so...
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Post subject: Re: Lancair IV-p Posted: 23 Mar 2017, 08:25 |
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That Mitts is awesome, I love everything about that airplane. My wife asked me last night, "should our next airplane be a MU-2 or an Aerostar"….oh boy…she has no idea what she just started in my little brain.
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Post subject: Re: Lancair IV-p Posted: 23 Mar 2017, 08:32 |
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Username Protected wrote: My wife asked me last night, "should our next airplane be a MU-2 or an Aerostar"….oh boy…she has no idea what she just started in my little brain. Or maybe she does.. Foreplay.. Flirting.. MU-2, PC12, 737, Aerostar.. : ) And it undoubtedly always gets your attention - in the little brain!
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Post subject: Re: Lancair IV-p Posted: 02 Jan 2018, 19:52 |
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I am interested in a Lancair IV-P Turbine and would love to talk some owners. I specifically have questions about scheduled and unscheduled engine maintenance on the Walter. I am curious about cost and availability of shops that can work on the engine. I would also love a pilot report on the electro explosive de-ice system on IVs and Evolutions.
I would also love the opportunity to get up close and sit in any IV. I split my time between Fresno and Lake Tahoe so if anyone has a IV nearby I would love to come check it out. send me a PM or call me at 530-570-1849.
Thanks,
Trevor
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Post subject: Re: Lancair IV-p Posted: 02 Jan 2018, 19:54 |
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Username Protected wrote: That Mitts is awesome, I love everything about that airplane. My wife asked me last night, "should our next airplane be a MU-2 or an Aerostar"….oh boy…she has no idea what she just started in my little brain. He shoved all in. viewtopic.php?f=49&t=146315
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Post subject: Re: Lancair IV-p Posted: 03 Jan 2018, 13:55 |
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Username Protected wrote: I am interested in a Lancair IV-P Turbine and would love to talk some owners. I specifically have questions about scheduled and unscheduled engine maintenance on the Walter. I am curious about cost and availability of shops that can work on the engine. I would also love a pilot report on the electro explosive de-ice system on IVs and Evolutions.
I would also love the opportunity to get up close and sit in any IV. I split my time between Fresno and Lake Tahoe so if anyone has a IV nearby I would love to come check it out. send me a PM or call me at 530-570-1849.
Thanks,
Trevor I am happy to show you my IV. I really like the piston powered IV but the turbine version is totally foreign for me. I think the turbine is probably grossly overpowered and twitchy but I've never flown one so that's total conjecture on my part. Actually, I don't think I'd go in a ride in a turbine version unless I really knew the guy offering the ride. Knowing what I know about flying the IV, I don't think I would get a turbine version. My main issue with the turbine is the rudder size (maxed out for the piston) and the gross weight/fuel issue. There's simply not enough space to stick enough Jet A in this airframe and even if you figure out where to stick it, the airframe wasn't really designed to be 600lbs heavier than it is. Just my 2 cents and I'm sure people will say similar things about the IV-piston.
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Post subject: Re: Lancair IV-p Posted: 03 Jan 2018, 23:43 |
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Username Protected wrote: I am interested in a Lancair IV-P Turbine and would love to talk some owners. I specifically have questions about scheduled and unscheduled engine maintenance on the Walter. I am curious about cost and availability of shops that can work on the engine. I would also love a pilot report on the electro explosive de-ice system on IVs and Evolutions.
I would also love the opportunity to get up close and sit in any IV. I split my time between Fresno and Lake Tahoe so if anyone has a IV nearby I would love to come check it out. send me a PM or call me at 530-570-1849.
Thanks,
Trevor I am happy to show you my IV. I really like the piston powered IV but the turbine version is totally foreign for me. I think the turbine is probably grossly overpowered and twitchy but I've never flown one so that's total conjecture on my part. Actually, I don't think I'd go in a ride in a turbine version unless I really knew the guy offering the ride. Knowing what I know about flying the IV, I don't think I would get a turbine version. My main issue with the turbine is the rudder size (maxed out for the piston) and the gross weight/fuel issue. There's simply not enough space to stick enough Jet A in this airframe and even if you figure out where to stick it, the airframe wasn't really designed to be 600lbs heavier than it is. Just my 2 cents and I'm sure people will say similar things about the IV-piston.
Agree with all of this.
And I’ll add a little......
For a turbine it has a worse accident record than its piston counter part. So worse than a regular iV-P. Now that’s saying something.
As for de-ice. Not familiar with the electro explosive Sounds like you only get to use that once, then done. But the electro expulsive was only installed on a few. The tks is a way better option. You won’t find too many preps on de ice, since getting into icing of anything other than light can become a serious problem quick. And that’s in the deiced planes.
The non deiced ones fly like a streamlined ACME anvil if you’re eating a snow cone inside it. Seriously, great traveling machine, but not an all weather dispatch plane. And have you inquired on insurance? Figure min of 12k for a piston and 30k for a turbine. Plus yearly recurrent, that alone is another $2500 all costs considered. And 12k is a best case guesstimate. That’s why so many run bare.
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Post subject: Re: Lancair IV-p Posted: 04 Jan 2018, 00:42 |
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Michael Congratulations.
I love your fast bird.
Suggest that you proceed nice and easy with your successful transition.
Beautiful aircraft, very fast, etc .
"Many" very experience pilots have died in these and all were in a awe of the performance, technology, efficiency.
Nice and Easy as you discover the in's and out's.
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Post subject: Re: Lancair IV-p Posted: 04 Jan 2018, 00:53 |
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Username Protected wrote: Michael Congratulations.
I love your fast bird.
Suggest that you proceed nice and easy with your successful transition.
Beautiful aircraft, very fast, etc .
"Many" very experience pilots have died in these and all were in a awe of the performance, technology, efficiency.
Nice and Easy as you discover the in's and out's. You realize his new ride is a citation 501sp? He’s had the Lancair for a while now. He’s going thru planes like TS 
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