Actual range of the Lear 35 and 36

[Hopeless_in_GA]

There is a company on the west coast that routinely flies it’s Lear 36 from Van Nuys to Hawaii and from what I’ve heard they do it year round to.

They also go too nonstop from VNY to LEX routinely and they have crossed the Atlantic several times in it as well.

 

[banned username 2]

Lear 35 solid 5 hours with a full load and reserves.(Landing with 800 lbs, tons in a 35)

YIKES!!! It used to take me a good hour to get the seat cushion out of my butt if I landed anywhere near 1,000 lbs. in the Lear 35... I think 800 lbs. remaining would require surgery...

Pucker Factor is high...

 

[HueyPilot]

Lear35 stuff

"When used by someone (toilet), everyone is glad that the pressurization provides a continuous airflow through the plane to the outflow valves."

Actually, the copilot gets the raw deal. There are two outflow valves in the Lear 35...the primary outflow valve, and the cabin safety valve. The primary is located near the copilot's feet up front, and the safety valve is on the aft bulkhead in the back of the cabin.

The primary valve is the one that's usually operating...the safety valve only opens when the cabin pressure differential reaches 9.7 psid, or if your squat switches are in the ground mode and the cabin air switch is off.

As for 800 lbs at your destination in a LR35....I agree, yikes! I flew to Travis AFB once, and the box said we'd arrive with 1200 lbs....we were sweating it, because all the nearby alternates weren't looking so good...Tahoe had heavy snow, Sacramento had thunderstorms, and SFO and OAK were also experiencing rain showers with intermittent t-storms. Looking back on it, we should have filled the trunk...at least then my gluteus maximus wouldn't have munched on the seat cushion as much...nothing like trying to get through some tough weather AND worrying about divert fuel.

 

[TurboS7]

With a Lear 24 and 25 landing with 800 lbs was company written SOP. Having that with a Lear 35 was more than enough. The government pays for all the Airforce bs in the real world they can be tough on you. If you landed with more than 1500 lbs you didn't fly again untill you had your little meeting with the Chief Pilot.

 

[501261]

With a Lear 24 and 25 landing with 800 lbs was company written SOP. Having that with a Lear 35 was more than enough. If you landed with more than 1500 lbs you didn't fly again untill you had your little meeting with the Chief Pilot.

Routinely landing with 800lbs. in a 25? Even a pretty "laid back" guy like myself goes YIKES!!!!!! Honestly, if I had to meet the chief because I put on an extra $100 worth of go-juice, I'd be out the door in a heart beat, I mean if the company is operating on such a small margin that they can't afford $100 of extra go-juice, what's going to happen at the next $100,000 "D" check?

I like to tell this story about "actual" fuel burn in a 25, I started an ILS into HOU, having 1800lbs at Parks (FAF). Shot the approach, no runway at DH, went missed, got an IMMEDIATE vector for an ILS into IAH, by the time we landed at IAH we only had 600lbs fuel remaining! The entire process from Parks to touchdown at IAH took less than 15 minutes!

Just something to think about in a real life scenario! Granted the 2 ILS approaches were fully configured (gear/full flaps) and we never got higher than 3000' on the missed/second approach!

Something else to think about, the ATIS at both IAH and HOU that day was reporting 2sm, 500 overcast in rain (typical summer shower). No problem to get in, right? After we landed at IAH we found out that the RVR went down to 800 due to heavy rain!

 

[j41driver]

I've heard that the 25 burns almost the same lb/hr on the ground at idle as it does at 410 doing Mmo. Any truth to this?

 

[TurboS7]

That is a very correct statement, at idle the fuel flow is the same as 410. On a miss you have to fly fuel flow. That means cruising at 170 to 200 knots instead of 250 down low, a lot of Lear pilot's screw that up. Our outfit was run by hard core Lear drivers from YIP, if you couldn't cut it they walked you out the door.

 

[banned username 2]

I've heard that the 25 burns almost the same lb/hr on the ground at idle as it does at 410 doing Mmo. Any truth to this?

Yes... well doing M0.78 (Mmo is M0.82)