Ovation 3 Climb Performance - Hot Summer Day in the Southeast

[Jeff_S]

Hey all,

I recently made a mid-afternoon return trip from Charlotte to JAX area (KFHB) and climbed to 10K' for the quick trip.  This got me on top of most of the clouds, and luckily the buildups were happening west and south of me.  People often ask about climb characteristics of the Ovation 3 so I thought this graph would be interesting to folks. I climbed directly from 600' to 10K' with no real level-offs.  My approach in climb is to stay at or about Carson's speed of ~130 IAS and take whatever vertical speed I get, leaning out every few thousand feet as necessary.  I did start with the A/C on initially but then turned it off once the outside air got cooler.

This chart is from the Savvy Aviation app.  Each plot has data points on both X-axes so pay attention to those if you get confused.  Any questions, let me know.

Cheers!

Jeff

[carusoam]

Great cruise climb details Jeff!

Thanks for sharing them.

MSers love Savvy graphs!

Any idea what is causing the rhythmic sawtooth pattern of the Vspd line?

Best regards,

-a-

[Jeff_S]

Thanks Anthony.  Regarding the v-speed fluctuations, those are most likely driven by a few factors:

1) Hot day with thermals

2) S-TEC 55x doing its best with a rate-based controlling mechanism, and;

3) 1 second interval logging is going to capture every gory detail!