Twinstar ME flying.

surreal1221

surreal1221

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A few random shots from the past week worth of cross country trips. The night photos turned out horrible, so - sorry none of those.

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Name this airport - without looking at my logbook. :)
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A happy field of CU.
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Area of showers over Alabama
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Leaving CAE after yesterday's trip. Just my last Good Bye to SC - this time from the Air.
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Dude you post too much!! How can anyone think that this is even remotely related to aviation!!?? :p

Cool pics! I like the lines of the twinstar... I heard that the wingspan was made too long for standard hangars though... any truth to that?

Bob
 
Great pics! Looks like a blast to fly. It still boggles me that she burns 8.8 gallons TOTAL and 150 + knots at low cruise...crazy.
 
Wow great pics and nice airplane, anyone have a ballpark figure on a used one? Not that I can afford even a big mac........
 
How do you feel about Twinstar vs. conventional prop mixture throttle twins? Would the training in Twinstar affect someone's ability to fly the conventional twins? I figure, most likely anyone looking for a job will hardly get to fly any twins with that kind of automation around. :confused:
 
ComplexHiAv8r said:
SWEET photos. How do you like the DA42?
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Love it. It's an amazing plane to fly. I'm going to miss it when I have to jump back into the DA20 for my CMEL SE add-on, lol.

Captain_Bob said:
Cool pics! I like the lines of the twinstar... I heard that the wingspan was made too long for standard hangars though... any truth to that?

Bob
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Wingspan is 44ft. Longer than a certain Cessna executive jet, of which I can not recall which one exactly.

I've never had to park it in a hanger, so I can't really answer that one. Sorry Bob.

Chewie von Nubbins said:
Nice plane, and nice photos. How much that thing rent for per hour? I can't seem to find that info on the Falcon website.
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$255 an hour.

skidz said:
How do you feel about Twinstar vs. conventional prop mixture throttle twins? Would the training in Twinstar affect someone's ability to fly the conventional twins? I figure, most likely anyone looking for a job will hardly get to fly any twins with that kind of automation around. :confused:
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Well, I can see how it could impact a person's transition to say a Baron, or the like. But, systems wise, the Twinstar is more complex than any other light twin on the market. It is one significantly electrically heavy aircraft. Lose power, we lose our engines.

As far as making a transition from power levers to throttle+prop+mixture, I'd say it wouldn't be a problem someone who has had that type of set up before flying the Twinstar. For a person like me though, who doesn't really plan on flying light twin pistons around for money anytime soon - I'm not too worried about it - but I'm sure I'd need those 5 hours or 15 hours in type before a company signed me off to fly their planes around. I'm sure you'd get use to it.
 
surreal1221 said:
Indeed.
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True, but I thought they fixed that problem? I read in the latest Flying magazine about the "jump start" incident in Europe that caused the loss of both engines on takeoff, but there was a comment about having that problem fixed.
 
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