{"id":5143,"date":"2017-11-26T13:34:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T20:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=5143"},"modified":"2017-11-26T13:34:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T20:34:42","slug":"airplane-upgrade-dreams-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=5143","title":{"rendered":"Airplane upgrade dreams &#8211; 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently I fly a Grumman Tiger AA-5B &#8211; an airplane that meets almost all my needs.<\/p>\n<p>For family transportation it would be nice to have a roomier cabin and 50 more horsepower to better get out of high altitude airports. At 130 kts it&#8217;s no slouch and it sips gas at only 10 gph. With 52gph, it has 500NM legs &#8211; more than the family can usually bear. So at $80\/hr wet ($4.30\/gal) with a $35\/hr maintenance reserve included the Tiger is hard to beat&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But pilots wouldn&#8217;t be pilots, if they weren&#8217;t dreaming of the next airplane. Possible upgrades for us include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Piper PA-24 Comanche B\/C &#8211; budget long range hauler at 155-160kts. Old.<\/li>\n<li>Mooney Ovation &#8211; What&#8217;s not to like? Price? Leaky wet wing tanks &#8211; 175kts<\/li>\n<li>Cessna 177 Cardinal Turbo &#8211; 165 kts, roomy.<\/li>\n<li>Beechcraft Bonanza P-33, S-33 &#8211; cracked spar A\/D,<\/li>\n<li>Mooney 201 \u00a0&#8211; J-Model &#8211; efficient, cramped back seats, 155 kts<\/li>\n<li>Cessna 210L &#8211; 6 seats, 165 kts, finicky retractable gear system, cracked spar A\/D<\/li>\n<li>Beechcraft A36 &#8211; 6 seats, 170kts, control harmony, but high price, cracked spar A\/D<\/li>\n<li>A G2 or older steam gauge SR-22 &#8211; Parachute, Modern Design, Fix gear 165kts<\/li>\n<li>An even older Piper Malibu (1987) &#8211; 200kts &#8211; six seats &#8211; insurability!<\/li>\n<li>Lancair 360 &#8211; 190kts &#8211; 2 seats &#8211; Experimental<\/li>\n<li>RV-4 &#8211; fun, no payload, low range &#8211; 160kts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unrelated a link to a great aircraft comparison article:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/airfactsjournal.com\/2014\/10\/retractable-singles-good-fad-ugly\/\">https:\/\/airfactsjournal.com\/2014\/10\/retractable-singles-good-fad-ugly\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently I fly a Grumman Tiger AA-5B &#8211; an airplane that meets almost all my needs. For family transportation it would be nice to have a roomier cabin and 50 more horsepower to better get out of high altitude airports. At 130 kts it&#8217;s no slouch and it sips gas at only 10 gph. With &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/?p=5143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Airplane upgrade dreams &#8211; 2017<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5144,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions\/5144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.austinity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}