Your engine overhaul costs are rising with every post… I have qoutes for 17k€ for an O360 plus taxes and installation, but it doesn’t matter if they go into a Cherokee or into a Travel Air. 50k£ per engine seems like either a total rip off or a very rare engine.
That a normal MEP is needed to fly inline thrust twins does not have much impact on the necessary proficiency to fly those OEI, I reckon.
mh wrote:
I have qoutes for 17k€ for an O360 plus taxes and installation, but it doesn’t matter if they go into a Cherokee or into a Travel Air.
We exchanged an IO-360 for an overhauled engine last year for about 30k€ including all taxes, freight costs and installation. (Overhaul done by a British shop, installation by a Swedish shop.)
In terms of zero timing an engine I am being generous. The trouble is in my experience you start out with a number but the shop then says well you may a well do the prop. at the same time, and the overhaul doesnt include this and that (which you may as well do at the same time) as so the estimate / bill grows. Of course you dont have to do any of those things and that will inevitably keep the cost down.
Can people posting planecheck links please use the site posted earlier i.e. https://plane2pdf.cryo.dev/ to get a local copy of the advert? Othewise, by the time somebody takes a look, it has probably gone.
Lovely Garmin G3X Touch in it
Buy it and report back to us after your first annual! ;)
Both engines very likely to need overhaul soon and I guess priced in. Worst case scenario and there could be a bill of £70K in the relatively short term, but everything else being equal (havent looked at the rest of it) you might have a lovely aircraft for the next 15 years for £100K.
That siad I think the single engine performance is pretty miserable, and will be even worse with two old engines. Given there are twins at similiar prices with good single engine performance I am not sure the merits of opting for one without.
Is the G3X even stc‘d for IFR in this airframe?
I think the 695 was only ever a VFR portable….