Amazing Coast Guard video!
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Amazing Coast Guard video!
#3
Plane Range: 1,049 nmi (1,207 mi; 1,943 km) with reserves at 65% power
Distance from CA to HI: 2500 miles.
Can you see how things went wrong?
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If I had to guess I would say it was a ferry flight and he had fuel bladders in the airplane. I would say he most likely had trouble when transferring tanks or something along those lines.
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that plane has a usefull load of about a thousand forty pounds or so. With the weight of the pilot and the tanks them selves I'm guessing you'd better have some good altitude cuz your gonna be a glider the last few miles
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The plane will go 1000 miles on 80 gallons, so it would have no problem ferrying 2,500 with over 300 gallons on board...
Last edited by 302Sport; 02-04-2015 at 10:05 PM.
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He had aux tanks in place of the rear seats for the ferry flight. His transfer switch failed and he couldn't use the extra fuel. He knew well ahead of time he was going down, hence why the CG was on scene as he went down. Flown in the SR22 a couple times, cool plane.
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That has to be a bad feeling!