I need a plane to make a 480 NM XC trip once a month for the coming 4-5 years or so. It needs to be a 4 place as my wife and 10 year old daughter will be with a good part of the time.
My goal for this was to make the trip in under 4 hours and 30 gallons of Mogas or less. I have considered everything from Mooney's and Bonanza's to RV-10 and Velocity or BD-4C
What really tipped the scales for the BH 4 place was that in 4-5 years I will be moving back home to MN from Indiana where I work now and I want to be able to convert the aircraft that I own to a float plane. Specifically on Full Lotus floats for year round use from our lake place up there.
The BH seems like such a good compromise of cruise speed , STOL , efficiency , solid construction , price and versatility. I have been obsessing over every plane I could read about and I am not sure another EAB can do what the BH does.
One thing I have not read about here that I am planning on is the use of the Viking 200 turbo or possibly the Aeromomentum 2.0T. I think this is the perfect engine type for this platform. The 1.5 liter honda is rock solid. 220 HP available for the first 20-30 seconds of flight. A solid 100lbs lighter then an o-540 and the ability to go up to 12k feet for XC cruise and burn 8-9 gph at hopefully 160 MPH TAS or more if the Bravo proves to be even more efficient.
Either way I will be deciding on a kit in the next coming months and ordering this spring to start the build. I plan to have my PPL finished in 12 months and I'd like to finish the QB in about 12 months possibly employing some builder assist along the way if I can find a competent builder somewhat local.
One thing that concerned me with some of the planes I was looking at was the lack of an active builder community....that is not the case the the BH and I look forward to contributing and asking lots of questions here.
Ben
My goal for this was to make the trip in under 4 hours and 30 gallons of Mogas or less. I have considered everything from Mooney's and Bonanza's to RV-10 and Velocity or BD-4C
What really tipped the scales for the BH 4 place was that in 4-5 years I will be moving back home to MN from Indiana where I work now and I want to be able to convert the aircraft that I own to a float plane. Specifically on Full Lotus floats for year round use from our lake place up there.
The BH seems like such a good compromise of cruise speed , STOL , efficiency , solid construction , price and versatility. I have been obsessing over every plane I could read about and I am not sure another EAB can do what the BH does.
One thing I have not read about here that I am planning on is the use of the Viking 200 turbo or possibly the Aeromomentum 2.0T. I think this is the perfect engine type for this platform. The 1.5 liter honda is rock solid. 220 HP available for the first 20-30 seconds of flight. A solid 100lbs lighter then an o-540 and the ability to go up to 12k feet for XC cruise and burn 8-9 gph at hopefully 160 MPH TAS or more if the Bravo proves to be even more efficient.
Either way I will be deciding on a kit in the next coming months and ordering this spring to start the build. I plan to have my PPL finished in 12 months and I'd like to finish the QB in about 12 months possibly employing some builder assist along the way if I can find a competent builder somewhat local.
One thing that concerned me with some of the planes I was looking at was the lack of an active builder community....that is not the case the the BH and I look forward to contributing and asking lots of questions here.
Ben
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