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Performance

  • VYSE see chart below
PA-30 POH Single Engine Rate of Climb

Glide Ratio

  • From the POH:

    Both-engines-out glide ratio for the Twin Comanche with landing gear and flaps retracted and propellers windmilling is 10 to 1, or approximately two miles of gliding distance for each 1,000 feet of altitude above the terrain. Drag is substantially reduced when the propellers are feathered, and glide ratio improves to 13 to 1. When the landing gear is extended, drag is increased and glide ratio is radically reduced to approximately 7 to 1. For this reason, it is suggested that the landing gear and flaps not be extended in most engine-out emergencies until over the threshold of the landing area. Landing gear down operating time is approximately 7 seconds.