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brisk to say the least. With three
occupants and just over half fuel
load, we accelerated so fast that I
thought we had full power applied
but instead when I queried Richard
as to what the best climb power was,
he stated that I was already at it: 90%
torque and 2000 rpm!
Blush! I had accidentally done a
de-rated take off like in large airliners
today. I had advanced the power
smoothly and progressively with the
slight crosswind.
With just this light crosswinds
from the right and temperature ISA
+1 2o, the performance was still such
that we were airborne in just under
1500 feet from commencing our
take-off roll on Bankstown Airport’s
runway 29R.

An easy approach

With our airways clearance, we
climbed to 3000 feet and tracked

northwest towards Richmond.

After a bit of delaying radar-

vectoring by Richmond Approach

to allow for departures, we were

vectored for an intercept of the

localiser for runway 28.

With Garmin’s GFC700

Automatic Flight Control system

with yaw damper making easy

work of the flying, the intercept was

efficiently flown.

With the gear selected down and

the first stage of flap, the ILS was

flown at 110 KIAS with only small

adjustments of power required to

hold the speed.

At the minima, ATC had advised

us to make a missed approach,

turn left 200 degrees and climb to

2500 feet. This was preselected on

the G1000 and after pressing the

Go-round button on the side of

the left thrust lever, the autopilot

disconnected (strewth, I had to fly

the plane myself again!), the flight

45

Length 8.56 m

Height 2.49 m

Wingspan 13 .55 m

Empty Weight 1410 kg

MTOW 19 99 kg

Payload 59 0 kg

Fuel Capacity standard/long range 18 9/289 l

Specifications Diamond DA42-VI

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Rate of Climb (ISA SL) 1760kg TOW 1550 fpm

Rate of Climb (18,000’) 10 00 fpm

Single Engine Service Ceiling 18 ,000 ft

Range @ 60%, standard/long range 79 5 nm / 1215 nm

Take off ground roll (ISA SL) 1760 kg 28 0 m/919 ft

Landing ground Roll (ISA SL) 34 0 m/ 1115 ft

Max Altitude 18 ,000 ft

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