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first flew in October 1969. This thread reminds me of the day that I decided to buy a Huey. When the altitude-hold is engaged, the trim wheel is in constant motion holding the aircraft level. hb``e`R In 1981, auto-ignition was first offered as an option. But it was too late to start the Cheyenne from scratch. PIPER Cheyenne 400. The record shows that, when it comes to safely stepping up to turboprops, there is simply no substitute for a regimen of structured recurrent training. Accidents The two most notorious Cheyenne accidents were original PA-31Ts involving longitudinal control-the much maligned SAS system. endstream endobj 182 0 obj <>/Metadata 4 0 R/Pages 3 0 R/StructTreeRoot 6 0 R/Type/Catalog/ViewerPreferences<>>> endobj 183 0 obj >/PageWidthList<0 612.0>>>>>>/Resources<>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC/ImageI]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/StructParents 0/TrimBox[0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0]/Type/Page>> endobj 184 0 obj <> endobj 185 0 obj <> endobj 186 0 obj <> endobj 187 0 obj [/Indexed/DeviceCMYK 16 198 0 R] endobj 188 0 obj <>stream Also, the IIs generally come equipped with far superior avionics, such as the King Gold Crown instead of the panel-mounted radios in the Cheyenne I. The 17-foot high tail also makes finding a T-hangar at most GA airports a challenge. Vref pegs the 400LS value at $1 million for a 1984 model to $1.22M for a 1992 model. The aircraft is not the easiest to keep straight on the centre line. In the summer, when the effective density altitude is higher, attempting to hand-fly at that altitude is simply impossible. Today, the 400LS averages a purchase price under $1 million, with total fixed and variable hourly operating expenses of $1,500. A mock-up is. The original Cheyenne is designated PA-31T. The Cheyenne II is a bit of a handful, and not one in which a low-time or untrained pilot moving up from piston engines should fool around without first-class training. had the aircraft off the runway and heading up at an amazing rate of climb. We did a hot section on schedule on the right engine almost four years ago. He writes that his facility currently supports about 20 Cheyennes along with a number of other turboprops. Payments as low as . I believe they only built 44 of them. The RVSM kit for KFC-400 equipped 400LS aircraft sells for $159,000 installed and includes a new Thommen AC-32 Air Data Computer and Thommen AD-32 Digital Altimeter, pitot-static plumbing and . The massive Dowty-Rotol composite propellers are expensive and have only eight inches of ground clearance, leading to erosion problems. Ours is one of only 44 total Cheyenne 400LS models built by Piper Aircraft between 1984 and 1992. 1. With the Cheyenne, on the other hand, we have had no downtime for maintenance whatsoever, except for the regular scheduled inspections. It still does. Full flap speed is 148. 0000012267 00000 n Believe it or not, it felt good; I felt I was being a good steward of the airplane. This is an invitation to disaster, because it can easily put weight too far aft. The dominating features are the pair of broad Dowty The previous owner of N7222F (C-FGKS) flew the aircraft from Edmonton, Canada, to Northern Virginia to show us its beauty. Dicks monthly Gear Up celebrates the human side of flying. As per the fifth paragraph in this article, 351 KTS at 25,000 feet (or 290 KTS at 41,000 feet) on 60 gallons of Jet A/hour, and a range of 1,800-plus nm with IFR reserve. And yes, when Pratt & Whitney (now Pratt & Whitney Canada), manufacturer of the PT-6 went on strike during Beechcrafts production of the A-100 King Air, Beech made the necessary modifications to the airframe to accommodate the Garret Engine, calling it the B-100. Remote mounted avionics were considered mandatory in turbine powered airplanes.
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