JasonC wrote:
However a stretched version will need new type certificate.
Mike C.
Article on the TBM930 http://www.aerobuzz.fr/aviation-generale/article/avec-le-nouveau-tbm930-daher-lance
So basically for 300k more you get the same plane, but G3000 avionics instead of G1000.
JasonC wrote:
Actually I am very surprised that the TBM900 has stuck with G1000. I thought they would have moved to the G3000 by now.
Well there you go. The TBM930 now has G3000. But at $4.1mn….Now almost more than an M2…..
Apart from the price tag, it seems to me like the perfect aircraft except for one thing: it doesn’t land well on grass airstrips while the PC12 does a good job in that.
Sure but you can buy a nearly new PC12 for that much money.
That then might be the better option, but … I don’t like the avionics in the PC12. However, at Courchevel about all the mountain instructors say that the PC12 is so much easier to fly than the TBM aircraft… and that passengers have more space to move around.
AeroPlus wrote:
However, at Courchevel about all the mountain instructors say that the PC12 is so much easier to fly than the TBM
I love that. Courchevel’s probably the only airport in Europe where the instructors have a view on this; everywhere else it C172 vs PA28 
BUT it’s not surprising. The PC12’s a LandRover; the TBM is a Porsche (with apologies to German readers for implying that the French can build anything approaching Teutonic quality).
$4.1 Million?
And it only has one engine?
For that much money you can get a nearly new King Air 250
