BeechTalk - BT - The definitive Piaggio P180 Avanti thread.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 11 Jul 2020, 18:59

Great use of the plane! Bravo

Best,

Tom

Username Protected · **Posted:** 12 Jul 2020, 16:38

Hot day. Flew at fl320 and had the same specific fuel burn as solitaire while going a lot faster.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 18 Jul 2020, 20:00

Indeed these airplane are incredible. Dallas to Charleston 2.5 hours. 361 knots on 500 ppm at FL380 at +9 ISA! The wife and boy love it too - lucky devils.

This is the quietest airplane interior in the world ...its beyond description. Click on the photos for correct orientation

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Username Protected · **Posted:** 18 Jul 2020, 20:29

Mark and Anthony,

What are you guys seeing for block fuel burns?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 18 Jul 2020, 21:13

Username Protected wrote:

Mark and Anthony,

What are you guys seeing for block fuel burns?

100 gph

Username Protected · **Posted:** 18 Jul 2020, 22:55

Dear Jeffs,

Please fix the photo rotation issue.

Thanks,

Us.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 18 Jul 2020, 23:48

Username Protected wrote:

Mark and Anthony,

What are you guys seeing for block fuel burns?

100 gph

Username Protected · **Posted:** 25 Jul 2020, 18:18

Colorado and a respite from the heat of Dallas. FL350/374 knots 600PPH.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 25 Jul 2020, 19:02

And with TAC air fuel prices it was probably cheaper than driving.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 25 Jul 2020, 19:12

Username Protected wrote:

And with TAC air fuel prices it was probably cheaper than driving.

Yeah with CAA it was less than 2 bucks a gallon. Nuts.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 29 Jul 2020, 20:39

Finally got up to FL410. It was hot in the upper 30s but cooled down enough at fl410 I was still doing 350tas.

It is car on highway quiet at that altitude. Not sure I could have made it up there in a reasonable amount of time had I been heavy. I didn’t try it till later in the flight and I only weighed around 9500lbs at that point. On cold days it would be no problem.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 30 Jul 2020, 07:56

Username Protected wrote:

Finally got up to FL410. It was hot in the upper 30s but cooled down enough at fl410 I was still doing 350tas.

It is car on highway quiet at that altitude. Not sure I could have made it up there in a reasonable amount of time had I been heavy. I didn’t try it till later in the flight and I only weighed around 9500lbs at that point. On cold days it would be no problem.

Impressive FF's up there! 460-470lbs/hr, it looks like.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 30 Jul 2020, 08:30

Spoke to the maintenance guy of a company in Quebec that flys 3 of these Piaggio.
They are flying about 1200 hrs total per year for the 3 and maintenance is about 1.5-2 manhours per flight hrs.

Is that what you guys are seeing?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 30 Jul 2020, 15:19

Anthony has had his for a bit longer than I’ve had mine so I’ll defer that question to him. I’m budgeting 60k year for all maintenance and parts for 125 hours year. We will see how that works out.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 30 Jul 2020, 15:45

Username Protected wrote:

Spoke to the maintenance guy of a company in Quebec that flys 3 of these Piaggio.
They are flying about 1200 hrs total per year for the 3 and maintenance is about 1.5-2 manhours per flight hrs.

Is that what you guys are seeing?

Would that have been John Maris's (Marinvent) plane? Not sure if they still have it.