Originally Posted by
Ewfflyer
At altitude, it'll do 175kias, which is around 265KTAS. The flightaware ground track had it doing 125gs @ 4000', so he had around 500lbs of torque for the power setting. Yes they are fun planes to fly, but are limited by weight/fuel, so range can be an issue past 600nm.
Well we did do the news, my coworker got the face time, but I gave america the finger! It was my finger doing the AP and the GPS footage!
I'm not suprised by how much they didn't use, but the only thing that really ticked me off was the Saratoga guy they flew with out in California! He's comparing apples to oranges, and really had no facts on anything. Talking about supplemental O2 and the fact the door would've been really hard to open.
abcnews.com/nightline is where you can find it, about 6:00 vid.
Nice Finger!! haha.
That flight instructor is retarded. Who needs oxygen at 4000ft? I know I would never even think of using oxygen at that altitude. It's great that one pilot representing the rest of us to the media can't even get things right.
Good luck to that guy he obviously needs some help, mentally.