Recent content by Agflyboy

Im from eastern plain of Colorado. Stratton

John makes a good point on the power output not being the same and one could add back power in MP and or RPM lop to make up for the reduced power output. Although looking at the (3rd,4th) pictures with the higher power settings I "lost" 7 knots, but burned 4.3 gph less and had 20 degree cooler...

Hi all, I was discussing with a POA member the other day what speed loss we could expect in out Turbo Comanche's when running lop. It depends on how far lean on the lean side of peak you run of course. I snapped a couple pictures of my engine monitor playing around rop and lop at a couple...

Is it reasonable to assume that a good pre-buy would be enough to identify all significant maintenance issues? I think I have a handle on what to look for w/r/t engines - it's the rest of the plane that I'm wondering about. I would think if you used a shop that is know to specialize in the...

Indy Tim, Do you have a subscription to Aviation Consumer? They do a nice job of reviewing aircraft, I see they reviewed the Grumen Tiger in 2010. Subscription is cheap and lots of airplane info, one of my favorite magazine I get and websites I go to. In the end it going to come down to what...

Eastern Colorado. Flagler. Have a 1970 pa-24- 260tc factory turbo.

:thumbsup: on the Comanche. Good payload, descent speed, I run my C model lop at 2350 squared burns about 10.7. Lot of plane for the money.