So I purchased the awesome Real Air legacy v2 on release day and so far I have racked up 1000nm in her. I decided to fly her all the way around my home island ( Australia ) as I sit here in the cold Yukon. My question is what's a realistic service ceiling? My two flights I climbed to FL250 with ease. I can't remember my airspeed but according to the GTN750 my GS was 280 kts.

Today out of curiosity I looked up the aircraft specs an apparently its service ceiling is only 18,000 ft. Seriously?

So I purchased the awesome Real Air legacy v2 on release day and so far I have racked up 1000nm in her. I decided to fly her all the way around my home island ( Australia ) as I sit here in the cold Yukon. My question is what's a realistic service ceiling? My two flights I climbed to FL250 with ease. I can't remember my airspeed but according to the GTN750 my GS was 280 kts.

Today out of curiosity I looked up the aircraft specs an apparently its service ceiling is only 18,000 ft. Seriously?

 

The "official" ceiling is 18,000 ft for the standard Legacy (non turbo) and that is mainly a hypoxia restriction although oxygen should be taken above 10,000 feet. There is no official ceiling with oxygen because it is a kit plane and Lancair does not publish info beyond the standard spec. We link to websites that discuss stretching standard specs. In practice, you can get to around 30,000 or even higher with oxygen until the turbo charged Legacy will start huffing and puffing and finally give out. The turbo charged model loads by default.

 

Have a look at the docs which explain things maybe you missed.

Thanks for the reply Robert! Yeah I definitely need to spend more time reading the documents.

In case anyone cares the most efficient altitude for best power occurs at around 17,000 in the turbocharged version... That's where you'll get around 300 KTAS.

Thanks Ryan, good to know, I'll try and keep my long flights close to that altitude if the winds are favorable  :smile:

 

Cheers

Martin

You can go higher and burn a lot less gas but I'm not paying for fuel!

Awesome bird, was flying all over the Caribbean yesterday at 25-30K... I like the small O2 tank, makes you plan a bit harder!  She's definitely faster lower like Ryan says, but I was only burning 7 gph ha!

 

Of course then low level aerobatics ensued once the O2 ran out....

 

She's inspired me to finally splurge on the GTN 750 I do believe.

Oh yeah, the F1 GTN is gaining traction!

 

If you have any other awesome planes like the A2A stuff or some newer Carenado GA (can't believe I just used Carenado and awesome in the same sentence) it will work in those - should work in Milviz stuff too

I made it up to FL350 yesterday, however the last few thousand feet was a struggle. Interestingly, I was flying in the northern hemisphere in full blown winter and decided to switch over to summer. As soon as ASN kicked in, the Lancair began dropping like a rock!  

I eeked up to 35K too, definitely up there, but considering you are in an unpressurized 2 place piston single it's nuts ha!  What a great airframe.

 

Did buy the F1 GTN 750, man what a game changer!  I knew it was awesome (I'd love to put one in my real life Grumman but it would cost as much as the dang plane is worth ha!), but this is a fantastic piece of hardware!!  I was skeptical, but it's truly what this plane deserves!  Not to mention the rest of my hanger......