Grob Tutor

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Grob Tutor
Grob Tutor
Description
Role	Basic Trainer
Crew	2
First Flight	November 1985
Entered Service	1999
Manufacturer	Grob
Dimensions
Length	24 ft 9 in	7.59 m
Wingspan	32 ft 8 in	10.00 m
Height	9 ft 2 in	2.8
Wing Area	131.3 ft²	12.2 m²
Weights
Empty	lb	kg
Loaded	lb	kg
Maximum Takeoff	2183 lb	990 kg
Powerplant
Engines	1x Lycoming 360-A1B6
Power	200 hp	149 kW
Performance
Maximum Speed	150 mph	240 km/h
Combat Range	n/a miles	n/a km
Ferry Range	miles	km
Service Ceiling	10,000(?) ft	m
Rate of Climb	1050 ft/min	320 m/min
Wing Loading	lb/ft²	kg/m²
Power/Mass	hp/lb	kW/kg
Avionics
Photo of Grob Tutor Cockpit

The Grob Tutor is a single-engined low-wing monoplane used as a basic training aircraft by the Royal Air Force (RAF). The aircraft (a Grob G 115) has fixed tricycle undercarriage with spatted wheels, a short nose bearing the engine and a 3-bladed variable-pitch propellor. The cockpit features a broad canopy and all round vision, with side-by-side seating for pilot and student. The wings are tapered with square tips and the empennage consists of a large fin and rudder with an oblong tailplane with square tips mid-set to the fuselage.

The Tutor is used by the University Air Squadrons to provide Elementary Flying Training (EFT) to university students mainly sponsored by the RAF. The tutor is also used by Air Experience Flights to provide flying experience to cadets of the Air Training Corps and Combined Cadet Force. The Tutor replaced the Scottish Aviation Bulldog in these roles in the late 1990s. Unusually, the Tutor fleet is owned and maintained by civilian companies and carries British civilian G-XXXX registrations under a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) scheme. The aircraft are painted overall white with blue flashes and RAF roundels.

[edit] Units Using the Tutor

Royal Air Force
- University of Birmingham UAS
- Bristol UAS
- Cambridge UAS
- East of Scotland UAS RAF Leuchars
- East Midlands UAS
- Universities of Glasgow & Strathclyde Air Squadron
- Liverpool, Manchester and Salford UAS RAF Woodvale
- Northumbrian Universities UAS RAF Leeming
- Oxford University UAS RAF Benson
- Southampton UAS
- University of Wales UAS
- University of London UAS
- Yorkshire Universities UAS
- 1 AEF St Athan
- 2 AEF Boscombe Down
- 3 AEF RAF Colerne
- 4 AEF Glasgow International Airport/Abbotsinch
- 5 AEF RAF Wyton
- 6 AEF RAF Benson
- 7 AEF RAF Cranwell
- 8 AEF RAF Cosford
- 9 AEF RAF Church Fenton
- 10 AEF RAF Woodvale
- 11 AEF RAF Leeming
- 12 AEF RAF Leuchars
- 1 Sqn, 1 EFTS RAF Cranwell
- 2 Sqn, 1 EFTS RAF Wyton
- 3 Sqn, 1 EFTS RAF Church Fenton