I am looking for a reasonably low level trip somewhere, given the oil usage issue (the piston rings thread). It seems to be sorted now but I don’t want to do FL150-200 until I have more data 
The forecast looks very good.
It looks like there will be a few of us going to this one…
Near minima on the ILS
No coincidence who was there, in OVC005
Nice wx above
Food was a lot better than the usual bacon butty
I can’t see how I missed that sun, given that we were only a few minutes behind you – but we were between layers all the way!
Wonderful meal and great company. Hope it’s not as long till next time. Oh, and the chocolates went down well with Mrs T :)
I can’t see how I missed that sun, given that we were only a few minutes behind you – but we were between layers all the way!
I cheated – that pic was the outbound flight
Just before the glideslope
The beach
On the way back
It was a great-meet-up
A pity the SR22 pilot didn’t make it.
And to complete the French theme, Mrs T prepared a Salade de gésiers this evening
Lovely TB family picture!
One detail caught my eye, though: the centre one (N55sth) seems to have the GT cabin and paint scheme, but no curved fin root. Is it some sort of hybrid?
You are damn right, @Alboule! I don’t know who the owner is (not one of our group).
If you look very closely at these two (the RH one is mine) you find it’s a G1 painted very well to look like the GT
Finally, here, S/N 1276, you find it’s a TB21 from 1991.
Other photos online (google on the reg) confirm this.
Curiously, one of the pics online, here, shows that the metal grille covering the turbo has either been very skillfully painted over, or doesn’t exist
This is what a normal TB21 looks like
but maybe the 1991 ones didn’t have that.
According to your list, N55510 is a TB21, but N5551Q is a TB20! Which explains the absence of secondary air intake on this one.
I could not find any picture of N55510 on the web.
Funny that these two TBs of the same year have these similar reg, and the re-arranged G1 is very well done! There must be some story here…
You are right, I missed that! Time to get some sleep
BTW I don’t think it’s an air intake; it’s just a metal grille which stops heat damage to the cowling from the turbo.
The similar regs are not that surprising because Socata used to allocate consecutive ones, as far as possible, in the factory, for US customers. Mine was built as N212GT, but that number never left the factory.
