C,

Although they say that this would be for the European market only

AFAIK, they say just the opposite (to me, at least): The Lyc version would be
for the US market. It's also a matter of using the DA42 in a training
environment, where pilots still need to be trained for three levers, not the
single one the Thielert has.

It
offers more power for about the same fuel burn and gas here is not much more
expensive than diesel.


Huh? Same fuel burn? Hardly.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)