Taylorcraft altitude question...

[Danny Holder]

I'm new to Taylorcraft market. How do Taylorcrafts perform at altitude without a mixture control?

Thanks for any help,
Danny Holder
e-mail: [email protected]

[Mark Julicher]

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Mine runs a bit rich and doesn't want to climb above 14,000 feet.

[wingwalkers]

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Mine flies great at 200 ft. AGL

[cvavon]

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Some stromberg carbs do have mixture controll and work above 5000 ft.

[M Towsley]

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But they don't work like a regular mixture. There is plenty of info out there to read up on it. It takes time for it to show an indication once you move the mixture.

Once I took my first Taylorcraft up to 10,000 and could tell there was some struggle to get there. Not sure a mixture would have helped that much. I later put a mixture control in but really did not see that much of a difference. Unless you fly at high altitude where you live not sure if you would need it. You did not put where you were from, high altitude?

The plane flies fine up high, but it is a long way up there when you are in a little T-Craft.

There are past threads on this, feel free to use the search function to find some info and other opinions. Welcome to the forum!

[lynnlpitts]

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Forty two years ago I had recently rebuilt a BC-12D N43213 w/65 Continental. Flew it to 14,500 MSL one day over the Joplin airport...think the month was May or June...Had help from some cumulus build up...remember it was chilly and lonesome up there! hihi ...73's, Lynn

[Guest]

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Lynn and all,

This thread also reminded me that around 1969 after assembling a BL-65 (N23603) I climbed it in the winter to 8800' MSL over Danbury, CT.

I was so cold. My feet were freezing! The airplane wouldn't even fly straight and level just hung on the prop.

It had a non sensitive altimeter so the actual altitude may have been a bit different.

I stay below 3000' MSL now my feet like it better.

Dave

[Pearson]

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I have had mine up to 12,500 feet. The only reason I didn't go higher was I was freezing cold, and this was in the summer time. I have also operated out of 4000 foot elevations during the summer, when density altitudes were in excess of 5000 feet, with no problems.

[Danny Holder]

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Thanks guys for your input !!!

[Marv]

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My Taylorcraft did not have a mixture control and with the throttle against the firewall it climbed to 7,800 feet and was flying nose high and hanging on the prop. It would go no higher. It was in Febuary and the temp was somewhere around *45.

[Danny Holder]

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I live in Cookeville, TN (Middle Tennessee). I just bought a Taylorcraft in South Carolina and will need to bring it home in the next few weeks. My question had to do about going over the Eastern Mountains. I am looking at the option of going south via Northern Georgia.

Thanks,
Danny

[3Dreaming]

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You shouldn't have any problems. I flew by BL from Southern Illinois to North Carolina with no issues.

[Hank Jarrett]

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There are a couple of paths that work well. Chuck and I talked about some of them when we were planning to link up. There are some nice little airports in the mountains and a path running north east to south west that is very light plane friendly with plenty of places to land. Chuck has flown at least 3/4 of the path and said it was beautiful country with a wide enough low altitude route to be comfortable.

Hank

[astjp2]

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I have been over 14K in Wyoming with a 65 and no mixutre. Kinda doggy but still flew. Tim

[crispy critter]

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I've flown an A65 taylorcraft all over the smokey's with no problem, two people in the summer. 7000' will put you well over pretty much any part of them with the exception of a couple of peaks hear & there and I think that's around the highest point anywhere. For the most part you can get thru safely at 5000' in most places and there is a route where you can go all the way across at 3500'.