Wow, I didn't know they had such a short life span. So advanced prop is all T-44s now?
That makes more sense. 161xxx BuNo doesn't compute for a twenty year old plane. The 163xxx C-12's I flew were 30 years old with 20,000 hours.IIRC they were old station birds thst got repurposed after that program got drawn down.
That makes more sense. 161xxx BuNo doesn't compute for a twenty year old plane. The 163xxx C-12's I flew were 30 years old with 20,000 hours.
True, but military king airs in general, and VT king airs specifically have rough lives compared to most civilian operators. Those things logged a LOT of landings, more than the designers probably anticipated. It's supposed to go from A to B and stop, not A to B, do a ton of touch and go's, swap students, and repeat.Well that, and a King Air should last a hell of a lot longer than 20 years.
Well that, and a King Air should last a hell of a lot longer than 20 years.
True, but military king airs in general, and VT king airs specifically have rough lives compared to most civilian operators. Those things logged a LOT of landings, more than the designers probably anticipated. It's supposed to go from A to B and stop, not A to B, do a ton of touch and go's, swap students, and repeat.
Most of the cost estimates I see online for king airs use 350-450 hours a year as the baseline. We flew ours 700-750 per year at a station. Anecdotally, I've never seen a mid-80's BE-200 for sale with anything close to 20,000 hours and 21,000 landings.I don't know about VT planes in particular but usually military aircraft have much lower utilization rates/hours than their civilian counterparts.
According to the article below, a contract competitor is looking to place about 9% of the HT training into simulators.
http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-n...s-navy-seeks-helo-simulators-primary-training
Failure to utilize the search function - down noted.Fixed it for you. There's another thread about this already, and the whole article is a self-licking ice-cream cone. No matter how true the whole plan may be.