Pickup in Monterey

[Bushpounder]

Arriving in Monterey to pick up an anonymous client.



Taxiing to the Jet Center for pickup.



Parked and waiting on our party to arrive.



Heading for the clouds and LAX.



BP;)

This ORBX Monterey scenery is SPECTACULAR!!!

[Deleted]

Looks good Don! Picking up an "Anonymoose" passenger, are we? Hmmnnn, I think I know someone who wants to "chat" with you <LOL>. I may have to look at that Monterey scenery myself at some point. Pretty far south for my tastes normally though. I was thinking of Tahoe, which I hear is pretty good.

Sure wish I could get the Lear to run for more than an hour without the right engine dying on me!

[scottb]

If you want to remain anonymous and inconspicuous, that is NOT the plane to do it in! Nice PIREP Don, glad you are enjoying SoCal.

-Scott

[Bushpounder]

Glenn - I'm not promising today, but let me see about doing a flight from LAX to SEA. That should get it to quit! They both may quit by then! LOL! I don't know the range right off without looking it up. I will before I try this.

BP;)

[Deleted]

I agree with Scott

Don, figure on 2100 lbs for the first hour, then about 1800 every hour after that. That should keep you from running into any trouble fuel wise.

I suspect my problem is that I was flying an airplane with only a "L" and "R", and not a "BOTH" fuel switch before that one. Even if you shut the sim down, it remembers that next time you boot up. If that's the case, that is why my right engine quit (I found all this out with the XP Series Lear), even though you have fuel in the tanks. HOWEVER what was different then was that one tank would drain dry in the Lear while the other would remain full (the imbalance was pretty easy to feel). In this airplane's case, I always had fuel in both wing tanks, yet the right engine would still quit. So if you can get the time, I'd appreciate you trying out a flight of about 1.5 hrs if you don't mind. I'm going to give it another try as well. I didn't have the nacelle heat on in both cases of the failure, but why only the right engine would fail doesn't make sense from that standpoint. Anyway, don't worry if you don't get time. This airplane has already pretty much used up my patience anyway.

Thanks Don.

[olderndirt]

Think you need to try for brighter colors.

[Bushpounder]

I didn't paint it. It just fits the Southeast U.S. theme.I want to do a repaint of it one day.

BP;)

[Deleted]

Hey Don, I just completed a flight from Abbotsford (CYXX) to Redding (KRDD) in the Lear with no problems. It was 85 minutes (burned a total of 3500 lbs of fuel for a fuel burn of roughly 2500 lbs/hr). Now that includes climb and taxi at both ends. Still sounds a tad high to me but it will give you a rough idea of what to expect. Anyway, no engine flameouts. This trip I loaded the default 172 first and cycled the fuel selector to all positions, then switched it to the BOTH position. I also had all my heat switches on (Nacelles, Pitot of course, Windshield and Radome). Could be you need to have the nacelle heat switches on, but I'm really thinking this had a lot more to do with having cycled the fuel selector in the 172 first. As I said, similar things happened to me in the XP Lear for that reason, but in it one tank would run dry and you couldn't make it select from the second side. I'm still not totally convinced this is the issue but we'll see. Anyway, if you do happen to do any flights of over an hour, can you please let me know if you do get an engine failure? Don't make a special trip for it, but just in case it does happen, let me know and we'll see if we can't figure out exactly why. Thanks.