Yves Gardan allegedly tried to reduce the material costs for GY80 by maximising the use of mass-produced automotive parts and using the same part for both flaps and ailerons, which is an interesting idea. At one point, I considered buying one but eventually decided in favour of the Grumman. Now that I hold a maintenance license, I might decide otherwise.
Mooney_Driver wrote:
I wonder however if there is any (legal) way to e.g install an AP or the likes
Possible but very expensive – you need an engineering company with a design organisation approval.
This looks like quite a nice Warrior 2.
https://www.planecheck.com?ent=da&id=49856
Quite well equipped with expensive stuff like a 2 axis AP, HSI, 8.33 COM and Mode S done and mid time engine, this one might make a quite economical cruiser for 2+2.
@Mooney_Driver you are right, much much higher time Warrior ii are selling for £60k plus in the UK
Indeed a nice warrior. If it weren’t for the potential wing spar AD :/
This grumman american is nicely equipped as well, with a g5 and gtn650.
Indeed a nice warrior. If it weren’t for the potential wing spar AD :/
Doesn’t affect the Warrior
Doens’t affect the Warrior II, indeed. The older Warriors (-151) are affected.
@boscomantico wrote:
Doens’t affect the Warrior II, indeed. The older Warriors (-151) are affected.
Has this proposed AD now been extended with the -151 and -181 variants? There are a lot of -181s out there – probably more than any other of the listed variants.
Do you have a link to the proposed AD?
Here.
The list of applicable models seems almost arbitrary. The -151 and -181 are affected, the -161 isn’t.
The -140 isn’t affected, but the -180 is…
Of course, then again, only aircrat with more than 5000 hours in service are affected, but that seems to apply to most of the old Cherokees these days. It seems they have not fully abandoned the concept of “factored service hours”, but I haven’t really read the entire document.
@boscomantico thank you, hadn’t spotted the Warrior I got caught in the NPRM AD
Mine is around 3500TT, and is a -161 II
what is the financial aspect of this proposed AD? In other words, how much will compliance cost?