RVSM for C-90?

[sauce]

Is RVSM required(for flights above 290) in a C-90 if the seats are limited to six or less?

 

[Guitar Guy]

RVSM has nothing to do with number of seats on board the aircraft. If you want to fly between FL290 and FL410 over the domestic U.S., you'll need RVSM approval of the aircraft and crew. For more info, check out: http://www.faa.gov/ats/ato/drvsm/default.asp

Also, for a King Air, you might want to contact Raytheon and do some web searches to find out about RVSM solutions for the C-90.

 

[Gummo]

Is RVSM required(for flights above 290) in a C-90 if the seats are limited to six or less?

Yep. This is a case where size doesn't matter.

 

[CorpLearDriver]

Why would you want to take a C-90 above FL290? I'm a bit ignorant but isn't a C-90 a bit underpowered at that altitude? Fuel economy is better, but would you be dragging the back side of the power curve to get accellerated? Just curious. I can see an F-90, a B-200/300/350, but not sure about a C-90.

Is RVSM required(for flights above 290) in a C-90 if the seats are limited to six or less?

 

[ultrarunner]

The C-90 is best in the high teens to low-mid 20's. No reason at all to take it any higher, it just performs poorly up there.

I flew a frakes converted 90 with much bigger de-rated PT-6's and I can't ever remember heading above 26 or 27 in that plane. Can't imaging trying to nurse a -21 powered beast up there.

Geez, pull the vanes out on a -21 machine up in the high twenties and you'd prly have to decend!

If you want to fly up there in a KA, get a B-200 or a B-350. And yes, there are RVSM solutions for both of those airplanes.

 

[mike1mc]

As far as I know there is no RVSM package available for any of the 90-series aircraft. I agree with everyone else that having a C90 at that altitude is useless. RVSM is an aircraft/operational approval that is regardless of aircraft size. You'll probably want to stay out of the upper twenties from now on, I'm sure that airspace is full of the non-RVSM approved aircraft.

 

[EMBPLT]

You may be confusing RVSM with TAWS. If you have six seats or more (Turboprop or Turbojet) you will have to Terrain Alert Warning System per the FAA starting sometime in the near future (March I think).

 

[wingnutt]

...someone correct me if im wrong, but isnt the C90 service ceiling 30,000 feet

 

[ultrarunner]

Sounds about right. The C90-1 might have been higher because of it's upgraded pressurization system.

 

[340drvr]

Yup, far as I know C90, A, and B all have certified ceilings of 30,000, and you might need JATO bottles to get one up there.