line up the live prop with the tail, thereby reducing drag to a minimum. The Twin Jab settled on a 50-100 ftimin descent. At 2,000 ft agl, that gives you around 20 minutes, or 25 nm to find somewhere to put the plane down. Flying over builtup Jo'burg that opens up a number of airfields as options rather than a'precipitous descent into an production models, Jabiru's computer based calculations indicate that this will go up to 110 KTAS). That gives you a five-hour endurance or a range of around 440 nm with VFR reserves. East of Waterkloof, we do a climb performance test from 5,500 ft to 7,000 ft- which worked out to a density altitude of around 7,500 to 9,000 ft. With both engines at 3,050 rpm, we slowed to B0 kt for best rate of climb, and averaged 670 ft/min. Rael tells me he carried out a similar test in George at 125 kg below gross from sea level to 10,000 ft and averaged 850 ft/min. That's not a fart in a bath, but it's nothing to turn your nose up at either - or in one sense, maybe it is. Finally, we checked single engine performance on the Highveld. With the left engine shut down and the prop a dead stick, we banked three degrees to the right, with the ball out to the right enough uninviting golf-course fairway - if you're lucky. Things were even better when we shui down the right-hand engine, which resulted in, at most, a 50 ft/min descent. Now, that gives you close on 50 nm to find your landing spot from 2,000 ft agl.
spot on nev. the flight test confirmed what you said.