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Post subject: Re: Considering buying a Meridian  Posted: Yesterday, 10:30 |
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Username Protected wrote: Maybe this is irrelevant but 1700hrs (x2 engines): Most expensive engine maintenance/repair item to date is a compressor seal ($8000). It dripped a small amount of oil over a period of days/weeks, well within limits but I didn’t like having a container under the plane, and I didn’t want to be the guy leaking oil on the ramp. The most expensive, strictly necessary, engine item was an oil scavenge pump (many years ago but I recall about $3000
On the airframe side of things, I replaced two heated glass windshields for $70k. The didn’t strictly need replacement but one was well on the way and the labor to replace two is substantially less than double the cost to do a single side
My experience is that the expense (per mile) is comparable between pressurized piston or turboprop aircraft. The systems on turbine aircraft break less, and are simpler but more expensive if they do fail You replaced the pilot side heated and the copilot non-heated and that was 70k or you replaced both twice?
Replaced both sides one time.
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Post subject: Re: Considering buying a Meridian Posted: Yesterday, 16:08 |
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Username Protected wrote:
You replaced the pilot side heated and the copilot non-heated and that was 70k or you replaced both twice?
Just to help clarify, Mike R has a Solitaire, both pilot and copilot windshields are heated. Some of the earlier MU2's have both windshields non-heated, with only a glycol spray bar for de-icing. They were still FIKI in that configuration. There is an STC to replace the pilot side with a heated windshield, both of my F models have this, as do most of the MU2's that I have looked at. Hilgard
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Post subject: Re: Considering buying a Meridian Posted: Yesterday, 20:59 |
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Username Protected wrote:
You replaced the pilot side heated and the copilot non-heated and that was 70k or you replaced both twice?
Just to help clarify, Mike R has a Solitaire, both pilot and copilot windshields are heated. Some of the earlier MU2's have both windshields non-heated, with only a glycol spray bar for de-icing. They were still FIKI in that configuration. There is an STC to replace the pilot side with a heated windshield, both of my F models have this, as do most of the MU2's that I have looked at. Hilgard
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