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Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 12:12 PM
Subject: [LML] Re: N23PH Flight
time
I don't have definitive information.
As far as I know, never took HPAT or equivalent.
As far as I know, total time in last 6 months was the 5 hours engine
breakin time.
There were conflicting reports about whether the "pressure" problem was
oil pressure or fuel pressure.
I believe he was intending to operate LOP on this trip.
Anyone
have LOP numbers for an IO-550 at 8000?
Again the log records 3:17 of flight but does not include the climb (7
minutes?)
nor the descent ( 12 minutes? but was that power on or power off? one
thing very peculiar about the track log is that there is no descent.)
3:17 + 7 + 12 = 3:36
If you add 3 gallons for climb and take off, the total burns come out
like this:
burn rate
total burn
14
53.4
15
57
16
60.6
17
64.2
If he were really at 17 and knew
it I think he would have done something about it.
I suspect there were other
contributing factors. ...like faulty fuel flow reporting, faulty fuel
level gauging, max usable fuel less than thought, or maybe it really was
oil pressure.
I looked at the google earth view
for the general area. I'm not sure which field he landed in but they all
looked smallish and maybe intimidating at speed.
It's hard to know what happened
in the final moments but the wreckage doesn't look consistent with forward
progress once on the ground.
Do we know this was fuel exhaustion? I know I ran my IO-550 150+
degrees ROP throughout the break-in process. I also flew low to
keep 75% power. That's at or above 15 GPH.
I thought I read something about oil pressure. I guess we'll find out
more in time. Only 5 hours on a newly rebuilt engine seems minimal
before a long cross country. A rebuilt engine doesn't constitute a
major modification, so there's really no need to re-enter Phase 1 flight
testing for a minimum of 5 hours, unless there was more work done that just
an R&R.
Losing an engine shouldn't be fatal. What do we know about the
pilot and his training, time in type, etc.? Maybe Colyn can give us a
bit more about the pilot's experience.
Just sorting through the scenario like I do with every Lancair
accident.
Mike Easley
Colorado Springs
In a message dated 5/11/2011 1:17:19 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
edmartintx@aol.com writes:
At high altitude, a stock Legacy with IO-550 should burn approximately
10.5 gallons/hour using "lean-of-peak" technique. In
this example, actual flight time was over four hours with 21 gallons
remaining (66-gallon capacity). Please see: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N767EM
J. E. MARTIN
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From: Karen Farnsworth <
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To:
lml <
lml@lancaironline.net>
Sent:
Tue, May 10, 2011 11:22 am
Subject: [LML] Re: N23PH Crash
Flight Aware shows 3 hours 50 min, not 3
hours 15 min. That is a long way on 60
gallons..
If, as has been
reported, the engine was new, I would think that it was still being broken
in. This would lead me to thing that fuel flow would be on the high side;
thus reducing range.
Just a
thought.
Lynn
Farnsworth