Guimbal Cabri G2
G2CAICAOVFRTrainerMSFS 2020 · 2024
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A French two-seat training helicopter with a three-blade rotor, a Fenestron tail rotor and a crash-resistant composite airframe. Flight schools use it as a modern alternative to the R22.
Units
Performance
- Cruise speed
- 90 kt
- Never-exceed speed (VNE)
- 130 kt
- Range
- 380 nm
- Service ceiling
- 13,000 ft
Fuel
- Fuel type
- AVGAS 100LL · AVGAS UL91 · MOGAS (unleaded car fuel)
- Usable fuel
- 168 l
- Total capacity
- 170 l
- Main tank
- 170 l
- Fuel burn (cruise)
- 40 l/h
- Usable fuel weighs
- 121 kg
Fuel burn at typical cruise.
Runway
- Usable surfaces
- Helipad · Grass · Asphalt
No published runway figures for this type yet.
Cockpit and systems
- Cockpit
- Analog and glass
Weights and capacity
- Max passengers
- 1
- Minimum crew
- 1
- Cockpit seats
- 2
- Max take-off weight (MTOW)
- 700 kg
- Empty weight
- 430 kg
Licence and training
- Licences that cover it
- LAPL(H) · PPL(H) · CPL(H)
- Type rating required
- Cabri G2
- Extra training or endorsements
- None beyond the licence and rating.
EASA terms. Other authorities name and split ratings differently.
Flight rules and approvals
- Flight rules
- VFR only
- Approvals
- Night VFR
Assumes the usual equipment. The aircraft's own documents decide what it may fly.
Type
- Manufacturer
- Guimbal
- Category
- Helicopter
- Engines
- 1× Piston
- ICAO type designator
- G2CA
- Wake turbulence category
- L · Light
- In service since
- 2008
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- 2020 · 2024
Scale drawing
TopSideFrontLength 8.05 mRotor diameter 7.2 mHeight 2.5 m
- Length
- 8.05 m
- Rotor diameter
- 7.2 m
- Height
- 2.5 m
- Fuselage width
- 1.24 m
Drawn to scale from the published length, span and height; finer shapes are approximate.
Size comparison
- Guimbal Cabri G2Length 8.05 m
- Robinson R22 Beta IILength 8.76 m
All drawn at one scale. The person is 1.8 m tall.
Speeds
- VYBest rate of climbMost height in the shortest time.
- 50 kt
- VBGBest glideFurthest distance per height lost, the speed to fly after an engine failure.
- 80 kt
- VNENever exceedNever fly faster than this. Red line.
- 130 kt
Typical published values for the named variant, for learning only. Always fly with the aircraft's own flight manual (POH/AFM).
Fly the Guimbal Cabri G2 in the simulator
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