Originally Posted by
f16jetmech
Fabulous points... thank you for that. Will most definitely take my time on this and proceed with caution. I've got a school full of A&P mechanics and an IA that i can entice to take a look at anything I'm interested in.
So other than the fact that MX and buying a busted up plane being the two main concerns... anybody else with any major shortcomings of going about something like this?
Not a huge fan of the C310 due to the fuel burn... but that thing does go fast. We are looking at runing 60% power or less because better fuel burn and we're interested in building time cheap.... not getting there ASAP
55% in the C310 is going to be less than 20gph FWIW. IO-470's in the older models will burn less than the IO-520's in the R-model.
When I flew freight in the R-models, I flew a nightly route, 670nm, with 6 t/o and landings. I did it on an avg of 105-110gal of fuel, and about 5.5hrs block time(not hobbs, start-to-shutdown). That's 19-20gph, with t/o and landings included!!! The C310 will give you more options when weather is around too, just adding my 2-cents!