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Bolivia
Hey guys,
What would you think of an experimental PA14 copy with extended wings and flaps, VGs, stretcher carrier with a 220 Franklin and CS prop on a zero thrustline mount...on BWs of course?
Well such a thing exists, minus the BWs-bring your own-here in Bolivia.
My Director wants to know if this airplane would be a beastly off airport machine. We are both in love with bush type flying but since I am the big wheel-supercub addict and lurker on this forum for that last couple years he asked me to investigate.
He wants to use it on the gravel bars in the mountains of Boliva 3,000-10,000ft and on the flat tundra near La Paz 14,000ft to do medivac and humanitarian work.
I know the Franklin would scare a lot of people-including me-but the owner swears by it.
A lot of you are going to say Turbo C185. But what could this airplane do in the hands of a okay pilot. Turbo C185 is a distant option but would cost a lot more and take a lot more time to import and equip.
Weighs 1350 on 800X6s with a gross around 2550.
We are thinking it has a LOT of power for its weight and wing so that it might do okay even without a turbo.
Do we need to upgrade to double puck brakes and boosters if we go with 31s and if so how hard is that.
What would you think of an experimental PA14 copy with extended wings and flaps, VGs, stretcher carrier with a 220 Franklin and CS prop on a zero thrustline mount...on BWs of course?
Well such a thing exists, minus the BWs-bring your own-here in Bolivia.
My Director wants to know if this airplane would be a beastly off airport machine. We are both in love with bush type flying but since I am the big wheel-supercub addict and lurker on this forum for that last couple years he asked me to investigate.
He wants to use it on the gravel bars in the mountains of Boliva 3,000-10,000ft and on the flat tundra near La Paz 14,000ft to do medivac and humanitarian work.
I know the Franklin would scare a lot of people-including me-but the owner swears by it.
A lot of you are going to say Turbo C185. But what could this airplane do in the hands of a okay pilot. Turbo C185 is a distant option but would cost a lot more and take a lot more time to import and equip.
Weighs 1350 on 800X6s with a gross around 2550.
We are thinking it has a LOT of power for its weight and wing so that it might do okay even without a turbo.
Do we need to upgrade to double puck brakes and boosters if we go with 31s and if so how hard is that.