Roger Lee Posted September 23, 2011 Report Share Posted September 23, 2011 Hi All, Arizona has its Copper State Fly-In at Casa Grande, AZ Oct. 21-22 (Thur, Fri, Sat) many of us will be there Friday morning and Eric Swisher will have a Flight Design display there. Come join us Friday morning Oct 21 in sunny Casa Grande, AZ. http://www.copperstate.org/csj/ I heard a rumor that Eric was buying breakfast for all CT pilots that show up!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppercity Posted September 23, 2011 Report Share Posted September 23, 2011 Sounds good to me! Free breakfast with purchase of a new CTLS, MC or deposit on a C4! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Lee Posted October 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2011 Copper State Fly-In at Eric's booth tomorrow morning 0830 -0900. I'll be there looking for everyone else and then a little breakfast. See you there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppercity Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Looking forward to seeing you all there! The hotel shuttle may put me a few minutes later than 0830, but you will see my plane there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airhound Posted October 29, 2012 Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 How did this years fly in work out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppercity Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 The turn out seemed smaller then previous years, but still had a good time with great people and great planes! I think the high cost of 100ll across the country was one factor, made for a good selling point for the CT though. I flew too and from Casa Grande, did several demo and showcase flights and still only burned 18 gals of auto gas round trip and 4.5 hrs on the Hobbs. Wonder what the L39 burned doing 3 high speed passes per day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airhound Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 Cross country flying in the Albatross is quite nice. If you elect to go VFR, 16,500- 17.500’ MSL will yield the best fuel economy and lowest traffic environment. Cruise speeds at nominal setting (98%) will typically be about 295-300 KTAS and yield about a 150 gph fuel burn. The optimal cruise altitude for the L-39, however, is in the FL 200- 240 area where fuel burn is back to about 135 gph but KTAS is up to about 315. Without at least an altitude hold, however, it is a bit of work as it doesn’t take much in this neutral stability platform to get off altitude. Conservative range is about 500 nm with a standard fuel system. With drop tanks, as on the L-39ZO/ZA, that range is extended to about 800 nm, but the drag penalty translates into burning about 50% of the extra fuel just to carry it. Nonetheless, having that option both looks cool and affords you need flexibility when going cross country, particularly in places like the upper Midwest or Northwest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug G. Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 Wouldn't mind the airspeed, but I like my 5+ gph. :-) Doug G. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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