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“At [FL]280, I’ll be doing 260 knots, true, and fuel burn up there is around 34 gallons an hour when it’s negative 26. That is about 230 pounds an hour. That’s pretty sweet, so I like getting up high. For what this plane can do, it is one of the most efficient and economical options in the market. With full tanks and payload, I can fly about 800 nautical miles and still have about an hour of flight time
remaining for reserves. From my home field, it is a little over two hours to Portland, two and a half hours to Seattle and almost three hours to Denver. Time en route depends on winds, but the Meridian can typically do these trips nonstop with comfortable reserves.”
There are many ways to think about stepping up into a turboprop or other aircraft.
On the ground at KMPI.
6 • TWIN & TURBINE / October 2023
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