Cessna R172K Hawk XP

Attention! This is not a 'normal' 172. This is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Red colthing to be exact! Like the Ferrari. Why? Because this airplane has a 6-cylinder Continental engine under it's cowling that delivers 195 horsepower!

This very reliable engine has a displacement of 360 cubic inches. Fuel AvGas and consumes about 30 litres/hour (8 gallons).

Specific information on this type can also be found at WikiPedia.

If you are used to a normal Cessna 172 or maybe a Cessna 150/152, then you will have to upgrade your skills to handling a constant speed propeller. This variable pitch/constant speed propeller gives you the optimum efficiency for takeoff as well as cruising. The Continental is a direct fuel injected type (IO-360) and has no carburator. This saves you automatically for the feared carburator icing.

The cockpit

Below you see a picture of the instrument panel. The big white spots on the right are scotch taped papers with cruise management and conversion tables, but these can be removed easely.

Good and complete.

The leftside of the panel, from left to right and from top to bottom: clock, airspeed, artificial horizon, altimeter, VOR/ILS, suction, fuel gages, turn- and slip, gyro compass, vertical speed, 2nd VOR, motorinstruments, manifold pressure, fuel flow, RPM and ADF.

The avionics stack entails from top to bottom: audio panel, GPS, COM/NAV set, 2nd COM/NAV set, DME, ADF and transponder.

The rightside of the panel has an EGT (exhaust gas temperature), a Hobbs hours counter and also a second altimeter (comes in handy when on flight levels but also want to see the real altitude).