Suitable Aircraft for GAAR2010

[micgrech]

Hi All!

Is there a listing somewhere of all suitable aircraft for the GAAR 2010??

Cheers

[Tom Goodrick]

Presently, (1600 Zulu) the list of Target Times for registered pilots is available on the GAAR site. That makes a pretty good list. You can see the test times for each and the related calculation of "average time" made by the Director. The target times for each participant are also posted.

Many of us fly the test a little slower than we expect to fly the legs to allow for adverse winds. But that can backfire because the Target Time is indeed the time you will try to take with each leg and aircraft. This can make for a long race with slower aircraft. Compared with practice times (no wind) for my AC560, I have a margin of from 8 to 25 minutes on my legs.

I would recommend the default Cessna 182 if you can't think of anything else. If you want something faster, I have a V-tail Bonanza on Avsim.com. The Aero Commander 560 is also very nice and easy to fly into these fields.

When you fly the test, don't think you can win by dogging it (flying slow) so you can beat your target times. Being under your target time is just as bad as being over your target time. In general, you want to fly there, loiter, and land exactly on time. But have fun doing it!

Perhaps an aerobatic plane that lands slowly is the answer. Look for an old T-6 Harvard/Texan. Loitering will be more fun.

[pterodactyl (George)]

yep there is. It is whatever you feel you can fly with wings, wheels and round engines (no turbos and no jets built from 1930 to 1960. I might be wrong on the dates but that about covers it. If you go to the GAAR site and look at all the different aircraft so far registered you will get a good idea of what is suitable.

[Allan_Lowson]

Straight engines and V-12s are OK too.

Especially a Gipsy or Merlin(s), and maybe the odd Hirth or Argus...

[pterodactyl (George)]

I was a bit off on the time frame. It is between 1930 and 1950

[Ed Burke]

Sorry to be pedantic Boney Wings but the quote from the rules, on the BGA home page for all to read, is "Participants may fly any radial or other piston engined aircraft of their choice that flew in the period 1930s to 1950s". So you were only a day out the first time; going downhill , Ed

[Tom Goodrick]

An additional statement by the Director amplifies on the restrictions to allow derivatives of aircraft made in that time period through the 1950's. This allows, for example, the currently available Cessna Skylane because Cessna Skylanes were owned and flown in the 1950's. It would also allow my V35B Bonanza which was made in 1972 as a version of the ones built and flown in the 1940's and 1950's.

[pterodactyl (George)]

I have been truly bested. I will now go back to my cockpit and properly read the rules.