@@troyellis4242 I don’t know my buddy from high school paid to learn how to fly a helicopter… everyone thought the same thing.. this is a dumb idea.. dude now makes a quarter million a year in Colorado doing what he loves
A new PT-6 engine can cost in excess of $300,000. I work for a shop where we repair them. Once we had a jack fail and drop one. Largely unscathed spare for what's called the 'chip detector' on the forward underside, it still cost us $150,000 to have it sent to Pratt & Whitney to have it inspected and recertified!
@@EvanLuft Absolutely. We mostly repair the old lady Beech 99's which are an older model. The New PC-12 PP's I know cost quite a bit more. It's crazy the prices in Aviation currently. Some of it makes sense, but holy cow!!!
According to Wikipedia most of the variants of PT6 are between 500 and 1500 horsepower. I imagine that the price they charge is partly a function of how much power the particular variant puts out.
After learning about the stress fractures caused in engine pylon attachments by continental and American from poor forklift procedures during maintenance this makes me very uncomfortable lol
Just started following you and im loving your vids. Would love to become a pilot but flight school is expensive lol I'll just keep rocking flight sim haha
Reminds me of starting a race car. The oil pump, starter, and other accessories all get started manually also. Being a pilot looks fun but it's like swimming in the air and I hate the ocean.
Hot start. Chop fuel keep starter rumning for like 20 seconds? Heard those are expensive to fix and need to know incase we get mother of a geomagnetic storm n have to steal one.
Haha that’s how these new jets work. Just a start button and they auto sequence everything. Haha biggest risk is you get a blister on the tip of one finger ;)
I'm a new pilot just starting my 3rd lesson today. I tried flying a beechcraft king air in Microsoft flight sim but was stumped when I needed to start it. 😂. Thanks for the help though.
Good to know, when the cops are hot on your tail and you need to get this thing going ASAP! Me, well it took me 60 seconds just to find the battery switch and then had to pause, rewind, and play again. Then I realised it was a completely different Plane.
reminds me of me starting a pilatus for the first time on flight simulator. i was so confused as to why the engine blew up. turns out your not supposed to leave the fuel on while starting. turbines engines are scary and expensive lol
If I was flying this plane I would always be fearful of the propeller loosening and impacting my head at a speed of 90 knots killing me of blunt force trauma in seconds.
Good training for the non pilot's out there. The Pt6 /34 thru the 114 are very forgiving and with proper 100hr.s and trend monitoring will be very trustworthy.
Ok so am I right in saying (on the ground) you can only start one side from scratch? Which you need to then start the other! Or is the process reversible?
You are correct. Almost always you start the one on the battery and the use the running one to start the 2nd engine. It is impractical to use a cart start every time. A good battery and alerting the engine spool up to around 18 to 21 % before introducing fuel won’t cause any harm at all. I can count on one hand how many times I’ve seen someone cart start a pt6 in almost 15 years of flying. Usually due to a bad battery or something :) :)
@@EvanLuft So are you saying it is not possible to start the other way? I know nothing of flying but find it interesting. If this is correct is it because the second engine lacks the hardware to do so? If yes is this to reduce weight? Or is it just practice to start one from battery and the second from electricity generated by the first? Could you start both from battery (even if bad practice)?
I would suggest honestly…… flight sim at home. Get familiar with the going air and all that stuff. Exactly what I did before flyjng my first turboprop and I was way ahead of the curve!
@@EvanLuft was looking into my fixed wing up to cfi but got hurt in a car crash. Now I deal with vertigo. No way I Could up now. Nice plane though. I still do a lot of sim flying on my laptop. Im pretty good with my instruments too. Can land blind.
