7000 feet minimum is what he is using.

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From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On
Behalf Of Tracy
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 3:12 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: PGUM-KJAX

Wow,  That's over twice the weight of my airplane in fuel load.  He must use
long runways for takeoff!

Tracy

On Mar 1, 2013, at 9:57 AM, "Bill Bradburry" <bbradburry@bellsouth.net>
wrote:

>
> You would probably be interested in this flight.
> Bill Harrelson built a Lancair 4P with an IO550 engine last year.  He
> equipped it with long range fuel tanks and can carry 400 gal of fuel.
>
> Starting a couple of day ago, he flew from KGUS(Peru, Indiana) to PHNL
> (Honolulu, Hawaii),a distance of 4519 miles, took him 22 hrs 15 min,  then
> he flew PHNL (Honolulu, Hawaii) to PGUM (Guam), a distance of 3846 miles,
> took him 16 hours 16 minutes, and now he is flying PGUM (Guam) to KJAX
> (Jacksonville, Fl).  That will be a 32-33 hour flight. 7038 miles per
airnav
> and 8113 miles direct per flight aware non stop!  He started out with 400
> gal of gas.
>
> Tail number is 6ZQ.  Check him out on flight aware.
>
> Bill is planning an around the world flight over both poles next.
>
> B2
>
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