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johngilpin

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Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 12:23 am Post subject: Kolb FireFly at High Altitude

I flew my 40hp FireFly off 7000+ft strips a couple of times, no problem.  And many times climbed to 10,000ft, no problem, still climbing at 200fpm.  And that's without re-jetting for that altitude, so EGTs were down around 800F..... I weigh 165lb.  This wasn't on really hot days, but not brisk either.  You really do need to heed the change in density altitude with increasing temp.....

Longer wing FireStar would definitely be better.  The real shortcoming of the FireFly is that too short 22ft wing.....

 



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