New Rocket Conversions Anyone?

[Missile=Awesome]

There is one guy in particular that has a weird mad scientist lust for turbine power in Mooney.  What’s up with that?

[Missile=Awesome]

Start a thread for that...or just keep inserting turbine wanna be sauce like a sixteen year old in his first whorehouse.

[tmo]

3 minutes ago, aviatoreb said:

What about that new Kestrel?  More speed, more load and more range than a PC12.

Come on, you know that if you need twice the performance of a PC12 you need a PC24 ;-)

[aviatoreb]

1 minute ago, tmo said:

Come on, you know that if you need twice the performance of a PC12 you need a PC24 ;-)

I want a PC48.

[geoffb]

On 11/10/2020 at 12:32 PM, Jsavage3 said:

 

Anybody else??  Besides the nay sayers.

186 KTAS at 55% power ROP on 14 to 15 gph at 12,000 feet is a real eye opener...and then you've got all kinds of go faster options from there.

 

 

I've been shopping, test flying and bothering Rocket owners.  They aren't that efficient or that fast, depending on which direction you look at it from.  I don't think they will give you 180 at 12k on 15 gph.  Maybe on 15gph at FL200.  They go fast, but they do it up high while burning lots of gas.  There's plenty of data on here provided by current and former owners.

[SkepticalJohn]

2 minutes ago, geoffb said:

I've been shopping, test flying and bothering Rocket owners.  They aren't that efficient or that fast, depending on which direction you look at it from.  I don't think they will give you 180 at 12k on 15 gph.  Maybe on 15gph at FL200.  They go fast, but they do it up high while burning lots of gas.  There's plenty of data on here provided by current and former owners.

Not quite... It was 186KTAS @ 12k on 14.5gph, which is 55% power.  Those were the REAL numbers he was writing - I was setting in the plane beside him when we did it.

[geoffb]

I'd buy that one.

[SkepticalJohn]

Sorry sir, it's not for sale.

[Missile=Awesome]

4 hours ago, geoffb said:

I've been shopping, test flying and bothering Rocket owners.  They aren't that efficient or that fast, depending on which direction you look at it from.  I don't think they will give you 180 at 12k on 15 gph.  Maybe on 15gph at FL200.  They go fast, but they do it up high while burning lots of gas.  There's plenty of data on here provided by current and former owners.

I own a Missile and while you might not think they are a 180 knot airplane, they are.  Not with a headwind of course.  I don’t have to burn 15gph to get there.  Or fly over 10,500...

[1980Mooney]

14 hours ago, SkepticalJohn said:

Not quite... It was 186KTAS @ 12k on 14.5gph, which is 55% power.  Those were the REAL numbers he was writing - I was setting in the plane beside him when we did it.

Appropriate screen name!  Without flying a tight level box and averaging all 4 GPS speeds I take all performance claims with a healthy dose of of skepticism.