I have heard it said, ".don't fly the Helio like a Cessna.", and I don't fly a Cessna like a Cessna. The airplane is capable of hanging on the prop on short final when light, and the owner had been operating it like that, like a Cub pulling the nose up when he was 40 feet high. ![]() When I checked out the owner, a Cub driver, in that thing, it was necessary to "re-learn" him to maintain a constant descent profile on final all the way to the ground. I laugh in the general direction of p-ponked 180's with 260hp, and even the empty-light 185's, although there is a Robertson 185 that I have been flying that is an absolute rocket, and yet a sweetheart as well.that thing with 350HP?.that would be a big "wow"!. For normal ops., it's a turbo-normalizing system, happens to have a manual wastegate and be able to push 50 inches. It has been said that they can boost a 470 to 350 horsepower. I have a RAJAY set for the o-470 (C-180 motor, the STC hits on many of the 470 models). I figured that must have been in strong wind. Thanks for your clarification, Poweroflift. Break the Helio and it's expensive, break the Cub and you have resources to fix it.Just my humble opinion!! fuel gives me 8.5 hours of range 2200 RPM add Rajay "turbo's" and I'm up there at 15,000 feet with 75% power showing 148 KTAS, not in a Cub!!. Comparison of the two is well, unfair I guess, but for the expense and what you do in Alaska is a horse-a-piece!! The Helio was always expensive, even when first new they were $24,500 F.A.F 1956 H-391B. I've had 1600 pounds in the airplane and flew off just fine. The major component of Helio is safety, you can get killed in anything, but very hard in the Helio. The 295/395 are for the most part extreme short-field airplanes that can operate from 500' strips 11,000 feet AGL, the Cub won't do that, this why the CIA operated them in S.E. ![]() ![]() A grossed out Super Cub is what the Helio in most cases is empty, and with the brakes locked I got off with no forward roll and that was 3000 RPM, throttle not all the way forward.
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