skywagon8a
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You have not flown out in the boonies. If you had you would know that your range is only 280 miles.
Weak Bladder and 180 Short Range Tanks - What Would You Do?
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RaisedByWolves
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Tx
Yeah it’s pponked, range is much shorter. Don’t look at the fuel flow on takeoff haha
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Most PPonk owners see speed increases that offset fuel flow increases, or we can roll back power to equal the 470 with 470-like fuel consumption. The 520 upgrade allows using better props, too. Another factor usually overlooked. My Pponk did not decrease my range. I appreciate 75 gallons capacity but rarely use it.
18180
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Pennsylvania
For me...the path to later wings is not so much about range but to expand my options in terms of available wings and elimination of bladders. Approach would be to swap bladders for Monarch plastic tanks and install a Sportsman LE all while wings on a bench and then do a wing swap.
hotrod180
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Port Townsend, WA
Apparently Hartwing / Monarch no longer offers plastic replacement tanks, for early or late wings.
They do offer plastic aux tanks, including some for the early "slant tank" wings.
You'd still have to put up with bladders for the mains, early or late.
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They do offer plastic aux tanks, including some for the early "slant tank" wings.
You'd still have to put up with bladders for the mains, early or late.
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hotrod180
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Port Townsend, WA
I'm thinking that there's not too many places in the lower 48 are actually more than 280 miles from fuel.
Washington is a relatively large state and it measures 350 miles east/west x 250 miles north/south.
But I get it that sometimes you wanna fill up at home and not have to refuel until you get back home or to a distant destination.
skywagon8a
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Actually hotrod I usually have a set of floats under me. Whenever I go out somewhere I need to always think of the trip back since many of the water bodies which I visit are nowhere near a fuel pump. Many of my trips have been many hours away with lots of places to land, none of which have fuel or even people. I understand your thinking.
mvivion
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Bozeman,MT
Actually, fuel stops can be a ways apart in the middle of the country, or central Idaho, when weather makes you follow terrain.
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skywagon8a
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My 185 carries 103 gallons in the wings. I can recall several instances when I had wished that I had more due to weather or unexpected head winds.
