Why are multiple engines different?

Recently, Mxsmanic posted:

Neil Gould writes:

And, the significance of that would be....???

It has quite a bearing on one's finances.

Where were you discussing his finances?

Neil

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Gig 601XL Builder writes:

Over half a million for a 25 year old one.
http://www.controller.com/listings/f...ELL&mdlgrp=206

So it's like spending $15,000 for a car and then having to replace the
engine for $2400. That's not so bad, relatively speaking.

How much does it cost to replace a piston engine in a single-engine
aircraft?

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Add the words "about a month after you bought it" and you'd be about right.

"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote in message
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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Gig 601XL Builder writes:

Over half a million for a 25 year old one.

http://www.controller.com/listings/f...ELL&mdlgrp=206

So it's like spending $15,000 for a car and then having to replace the
engine for $2400. That's not so bad, relatively speaking.

How much does it cost to replace a piston engine in a single-engine
aircraft?

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Add the words "about a month after you bought it" and you'd be about
right.



Nope. It took me five months.

In my case, I paid $17,000 for the plane and paid $19,000 to replace the
engine.

"RK Henry" wrote:

One time some years ago when my Warrior was in the shop for an annual,
one of the A&Ps pointed to a nearby 206 and told me with a smile, "We
just did a hot section inspection on that helicopter that cost
$70,000."

Sounds like it didn't pass the inspection.

"Jim Macklin" wrote:

First rule of aerodynamics, money makes lift.

But money can also tie you down.

Neil Gould writes:

Get the POH and read it.

I rather doubt that the POH says anything about taxiing on one engine.

Irrelevant. One difference between an aviation simulator and MSFS is, for
one thing, you can actually get credit for time in a real aircraft
simulator.

That's a bureaucratic difference, nothing more.

If you even one hour's experience with a real simulator, you
might understand the difference pretty clearly.

Apparently I can't hope to see it explained here.

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Neil Gould writes:

Where were you discussing his finances?

He was speculating on the owners of twins having more money than
sense.

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Mxsmanic wrote:

I rather doubt that the POH says anything about taxiing on one engine.

There is quite a bit of info about single engine performances
though. Nothing specific about taxiing with one engine I
must admit, but there are a lot of other things that are
omitted as well, for instance, take off performances
with the wings off, that sort of things.

As for training/rating; a lot of the training involves doing
things with an engine off (well, simulated engine failure,
or really switching it off depending on how adventurous the
instructor is and/or how close you are of a really big runway,
which we have around here -- I had plenty of fun at A****er);
Landing on one engine is something I have done a few times,
actually everytime you seat with an instructor (MEI), a
designated examiner (and in my case, I *also* did a 'medical
flight test' with a FAA inspector to upgrade my medical and
we picked the twin because it is more fun), they are all very
keen on messing with the engine controls :-), and just for
kicks we included taxiing out of the runway; with some
momentum, no problem -- I mean, you can get out of the runway
and wait for someone to tow you out of your misery without
getting in anyone's way; With some momentum, I can taxi out
of the runway with a glider for that matter. But once stopped,
or sufficiently slowed down, I guarantee you that you
won't go anywhere without pushing or towing it (in the
conventional light twin, well in the glider too)

A flight sim that has reasonably good models is Xplane,
which you may want to check out,

--Sylvain

Recently, Sylvain posted:

A flight sim that has reasonably good models is Xplane,
which you may want to check out,

Nah... Xplane is far too real for him.

Neil

karl gruber wrote:
"cjcampbell" Seems to me, if you fly more than one type or don't fly much,
announcing the best single engine climb speed and bugging it during the
pre-takeoff briefing is a good idea.

No this was done "kinda" safely.

Chris,

I'm sure you know this and probably realized it the second you clicked on
send, but.........

I can only plead having a bad cold. I can barely thimk.