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 Post subject: Re: MU2 Pre-buy speed 36 ktas below book
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The next plane I buy will most likely be one of Mike Lavars -40 or k/m-10 airplanes.
The lengths I have seen him go to make things right for buyers of his airplanes is unbelievable.

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And for the record we rarely dragged our -6M to FL250 and occasionally FL280. If heavy or hot it wasn’t impressive. Really need the -10s to make higher work. Although we were always ISA +HOT in the SouthWest.

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I fly mine at 20deg below EGT redline at 97% engine speed (as recommended by Honeywell’s engineers when I bought it) which usually burns 75-80gph and yields around 310-315kts. It usually cruises pitched up about 2.5 degrees according to the G600 and the other two independent AI’s. I bought mine from Mike Laver. He owned my 50AF before his current -ED. He’s a very honest guy. Based on his reputation, I bought mine without pre-buy and very little has gone wrong in 5.5 years.


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What Honeywell engineers?


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The pilot advisor. He was great. Too bad there seem to be no videos of his presentations re: proper ops and reasons for them. Those talks where he fielded questions from the crowd were always interesting and usually put a few OWT to bed.


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I fly mine at 20deg below EGT redline at 97% engine speed (as recommended by Honeywell’s engineers when I bought it) which usually burns 75-80gph and yields around 310-315kts. It usually cruises pitched up about 2.5 degrees according to the G600 and the other two independent AI’s. I bought mine from Mike Laver. He owned my 50AF before his current -ED. He’s a very honest guy. Based on his reputation, I bought mine without pre-buy and very little has gone wrong in 5.5 years.



From the pictures it looks like the subject airplane was 50C below the limit which is a huge difference from the power setting in the performance chart


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 Post subject: Re: MU2 Pre-buy speed 36 ktas below book
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The pilot advisor. He was great. Too bad there seem to be no videos of his presentations re: proper ops and reasons for them. Those talks where he fielded questions from the crowd were always interesting and usually put a few OWT to bed.


Agreed. He had an outstanding capacity to explain things in a way operators understand. I have been disappointed by some of the folks from Honeywell and MHIA at the PROP seminars when fielding questions since Hellmuth’s retirement.
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There is a sideslip indicator, and it's pretty much centered; maybe a hair left.
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The airplane was on autopilot so it's possible there was some yaw servo push on the rudder -- dunno. The control wheel was centered, so spoilers down.

I understand higher ITT being available, but the fuel burn was what it ought to be for 289 kt (if you believe the manual).

I had already noted (actually, Land Creson noted) the split in the torque gauges at exactly matched fuel flows and ITTs on my (previous) demo flight and squawked it; they should have been fixed prior to this acceptance flight and Mike Laver agrees they need to be fixed. I wonder if either of the torque gauges was indicating correctly. But... back to speed vs fuel flow -- it's just dang slow for the fuel flow.


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There is a sideslip indicator, and it's pretty much centered; maybe a hair left.
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The airplane was on autopilot so it's possible there was some yaw servo push on the rudder -- dunno. The control wheel was centered, so spoilers down.

I understand higher ITT being available, but the fuel burn was what it ought to be for 289 kt (if you believe the manual).

I had already noted (actually, Land Creson noted) the split in the torque gauges at exactly matched fuel flows and ITTs on my (previous) demo flight and squawked it; they should have been fixed prior to this acceptance flight and Mike Laver agrees they need to be fixed. I wonder if either of the torque gauges was indicating correctly. But... back to speed vs fuel flow -- it's just dang slow for the fuel flow.


It’s not a slight skid that’s reducing speed 36kt. There are actually a myriad of possible explanations, some plausible and some unlikely. Descending air from a mountain wave system can easily reduce speed that much. If one wants to solve this riddle then the plane has to be flown to the numbers in the book which are the temp and torque limits. Then see if the engines make the numbers in the power assurance chart and the plane makes the book climb and cruise numbers


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At what altitude do MU2 typically become temp limited?


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At what altitude do MU2 typically become temp limited?

My Solitaire temps out about 16k’, generally. Yesterday it was unusually cool (ISA minus something, which I almost never see) and it went to nearly 18k before temp limits.

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It’s not a slight skid that’s reducing speed 36kt. There are actually a myriad of possible explanations, some plausible and some unlikely. Descending air from a mountain wave system can easily reduce speed that much. If one wants to solve this riddle then the plane has to be flown to the numbers in the book which are the temp and torque limits. Then see if the engines make the numbers in the power assurance chart and the plane makes the book climb and cruise numbers

Mike, I agree completely -- there are MANY pitfalls. One of the most disciplined Lancair aficionados finally figured out that he was 7 kt down on a particular test point because he was flying in a high pressure system and there's a net downdraft or subsidence in a high. So he was having to "climb" just to stay level.

There is not enough data in this one point to figure out N3GT's real performance. My problem is that the only way I can really diagnose it is by buying the airplane and sorting it out ... which could be very expensive.


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At what altitude do MU2 typically become temp limited?

A -6 can temp out on the runway. In summer in AZ it is already behind.
Big difference from a 10.

No -6 is gonna true 289 at FL250.
Although I’m sure somebody will show otherwise.

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Checked mine on a short flight at 17,000 today. Torque limited throughout climb and then limited by Vne (250 IAS) at 17,000. ISA 0.
Judging from trend, I’d say the temp would have become limiting (using 20 less than actual limit) at maybe 18,000 or FL190 in today’s conditions.

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Checked mine on a short flight at 17,000 today. Torque limited throughout climb and then limited by Vne (250 IAS) at 17,000. ISA 0.
Judging from trend, I’d say the temp would have become limiting (using 20 less than actual limit) at maybe 18,000 or FL190 in today’s conditions.

-5, -6, -10?

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For those of us in warmer climates, don’t try to make book numbers.
They’re based on ideal conditions, which we never see.
I’ve never seen ISA temperatures and humidity alone can rob you of up to 10% horsepower.


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Checked mine on a short flight at 17,000 today. Torque limited throughout climb and then limited by Vne (250 IAS) at 17,000. ISA 0.
Judging from trend, I’d say the temp would have become limiting (using 20 less than actual limit) at maybe 18,000 or FL190 in today’s conditions.

-5, -6, -10?



-10
And technically, once you are airborne at speed and Vmc is no longer a concern, you could push the Tq to 110% which is the level of Tq the long bodies have listed as their 100% with the same engine. I don’t do that because I usually just leave the protective torque limiter on all the time. And “pretty soon” Temp becomes limiting in the climb anyway.
That’s why the Tq gage on short bodies doesn’t have a radial red line at 100%. The color changes and ends at 110%. At least that’s how it is denoted on my instruments.
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