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Richard Carper, former owner of navion N4529K:

Hi Mike,

Per your request I made couple of cross country flights to check speed and fuel consumption. They are amazingly like my big blue bird. Your plane is about 2 mph faster than mine,, which I would expect as yours is new and mine had 1500 or s hours on it, and more antennas. The fuel consumption was as nearly identical as could be. The flight numbers are below.

The plane sure flies like my old bird. I just Love it!!!

Flight 1, First leg CVO to Columbia River, 116 miles, elapsed time=53
minutes:
takeoff, climb to cruise at 5500;
2200 rpm, 22 inches manifold pressure;
leaned to 60 on FF Gauge;
IAS at cruise=134 mph,
OAT=45F,
TAS=142 mph,
fuel consumption=11.6 gph,
avg. gnd speed made good=131 mph

Second leg Columbia River to Port Angeles, 135 miles, elapsed time=56
minutes:
Climbed to 7500 cruise;
2200 rpm, 22 inches manifold pressure;
leaned to 60 on FF Gauge
IAS=132
OAT=10F
TAS=145
Fuel consumption=10.7 gph
Avg gnd speed made good=144.6

Trip 2. CVO to Burns via Bend VOR. 225 miles, elapsed time=94 minutes
All at cruising altitude of 8500 feet;
2200 rpm, 22 inches manifold pressure;
leaned to 60 on FF Gauge;
IAS at cruise=131 mph,
OAT=10F,
TAS=144 mph,
fuel consumption=10.2 gph,
avg. gnd speed made good=143.6 mph

The engine controls are accurately tuned so dont forget to use normal procedure to increase blade pitch as you accelerate and also as you gain altitude. Normally prop blade angle is set at minimum pitch (blue lever all the way up) for takeoff and landing to provide maximum power. During cruise and at higher altitudes the blade pitch is increased to the best angle for most efficient cruise. You can turn on inflight data output to see very detailed information and help understand the relationship of different engine settings.

This airplane has a 3D cockpit as opposed to a 2D panel. 3D cockpit mode is enabled by pressing ctrl and letter o. The view direcion can be set to be controlled by either mouse, joystick hat switch, or trackball controller. I recommend setting a trackball controller for view direction which frees the mouse to click on the various switches and levers in the cockpit. I recommend setting field of view at about 60 or 70 degrees instead of the default 45 degrees. Field of view is in settings>rendering options. It also helps the feeling of realism a lot to get used to using + and - keys to zoom up to things in the cockpit and outside the windows. As you may know, many keys and controls can be set to be activated by buttons on the control stick, including controlling view direction by joystick hat switch. After getting used to 3D cockpit flight it becomes very second nature and is a great realistic flying experience.