Brian: I have had a 172 to 12,500 more than once and a 182 to more than 15,000 ft traversing the San Gabrial mountains over Mt. Baldy in So. Calif. On my trips back to CA from the midwest I would routinely go up to 12,500 traversing the ridge between Las Vegas and Santa Fe NM. I also have made many trips to Prescott AZ from So. CA that required altitudes above 10,000 ft to give comfortable terrain clearance in the often turbulent air between Prescott & the Colorado River at Parker and Lake Havesau City AZ. I have personally determined the service cieling of a 172 to be between 14,000 & 14,500 ft so at 12,500 I would be crowding its capability pretty good
I know that the Sport Plane regs say 10,000 ft but that in high country can get you in a lot of trouble if you are held to it. Perhaps the whole idea is to keep Sport Pilots out of high country. Personally I never had a problem up to the 12,000 altitude for a sustained period but I am not a smoker and do not have a breating problem and 10,000 ft has always been the recomended cieling for smokers. Don ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Kraut wrote: > I saw some formula a while back that would compute your service ceiling > (when you can get a max of 100 FPM climb for those who forgot) when you > input your climb rate and altitude at some lower altitude. Does anyone know > where to find it? I did a time to climb test in the Stang last week (end of > the runway to 10,000 in under 13 minutes) and found that I was still going > up 500 FPM at 13,500. I would love to know what my ceiling would compute > to, but I don't have the oxygen to try it. > > Brian Kraut > Engineering Alternatives, Inc. > www.engalt.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net]On > Behalf Of Joe H Horton > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 7:09 PM > To: kr...@mylist.net > Subject: Re: KR> nice day-visit > > > different places to make a gradual turn, or keep it going straight. > > I took > > mine to 15,000' the other day, and it was still climbing at > > something like > > 300' per minute at that altitude. > > > Mark, > What indicated airspeed were you climbing at?? I took mine to 10500 last > night and was climbing at 400 at 110 mph indicated. Sure was nice view > from 50miles from Philly it seemed like I was looking right down in the > streets. > > Joe Horton, Coopersburg, Pa. > joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
