Not sure if its been there the whole time or not but I'm noticing the two of you are syncing up very well on these recent flights. Having a good co-pilot in a plane that complex must be a huge benefit.
flew one for air taxi for 3 years 30 inches 2200 should yield an egt of 1400 and ff of 17.5 gph each side The plane was new when I started and ran both eng to TBO No problems 22/gal/hr to RICH
In April I'm going to Navajo school. The goal is to fly a 1978 Navajo Chieftain, Panther conversion very similar to your machine, less the wonderful G600 Txi.
Hi CA Aviation. I noticed you transferred fuel to the mains. Where are the aux tanks located, how many gallons do they hold and what is your endurance with a full fuel load? Nice aircraft.
Thanks for watching. The aux tanks are located in the nacelles behind the engines. This plane is equipped with the extra storage lockers behind the engines, the optional aux tanks utilize a small amount of that storage. They hold 27 gallons each. Standard fuel load of the plane is 183 gallons, with the aux tanks we carry 237 usable. At a 65% power @ 10K feet we can get about 5 hours @ 185Kts. With 55% power at 10K we can stretch to 6.5 hours @ 170Kts. Depending on head winds.
Kind of, the plane had the panther mods before Mike Jones. When Mike Jones got the plane we had him upgrade the avionics, install his new blue print engines and added the fuel tanks among some other things like annual and AD's.
From my understanding the autopilot controller under the G600txi is part of the package that comes with it to interface into the planes king 200 autopilot. The status panel I thought was original to the plane. I know our old Seneca has one similar. This package was put together by Mike Jones Aviation. As side note. That isn’t a G5, it’s made by L3 (esi500)
@@CharleyAlphaAviation Interesting, I have brought a 1969 PA-31 with some mods, winglets, aux tanks and A2C engines. It hadn't flown for a while so doing a rigorous annual and 100 hr inlc alot of component rebuild. I am thinking about some longer runs in the Pacific and looking at range. Seems running at 55% works but also temps look critical. Any thoughts on the range/speed tradeoff?
@@johnsouthworthnz We have a video on the power discussion. It's located here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NDQMnUfoI_8.html We have done some more flying with different power since this video, but I think you will find the info you want. 55% works good and adds for about an extra hour with added distance, without sacrificing too much speed. We can work on doing more videos or discussions around the power settings.
@@CharleyAlphaAviation I thought the G5 STC didn't apply to the PA31. Is the installation permitted when installed as a backup AI? I run Navajos commercially up in Canada and have been thirsty for that upgrade.
Thanks for watching. Annual inspection, we're not really sure. We will have the first annual coming up in a few months. We did have one done when we purchased the plane, but there were many things done at that time. It is a 40 year old plane. We typical set up for around 65% power and that works out to be around 200Ktas at 15K and around 185Ktas at 10K. At that setting we plan a burn of 23-22gph side, usually see actually burn a little less. our plan on fuel burn looks like this: 15k 65% 200Ktas, 23 gph each 10k 65% 185Ktas, 22 gph each 9K 55% 170 Ktas, 17.5 gph each 6K 65% 178Ktas, 21 gph each Hope that helps.
