View Poll Results: Do you want to ride in a pc-12?
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PC-12
11-26-2025 | 05:09 PM
#23
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I have nearly 10,000 hours of PT-6 time. I also worked as a mechanic on them and have been to the P&W factory school. It is not a stretch to say that I love turboprops. However, I have had one catastrophic engine failure and one near so. I am now old and like my planes to have two or more jet engines. You wouldn't catch me dead in a single engine airplane at night, over mountains, or in the clouds. Especially if I didn't own it. Free advice. Take it for what you paid for it.
Go to King Air School and the instructor is like: “When the engine quits…”
11-27-2025 | 06:35 AM
#24
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Thoughts?
In my professional opinion, there’s only a matter of time till a reservist like me gets forced to ride on it at 2 am, hard IMC, single engine over the Appalachians.
if the company can’t even deadhead me from Orlando to Vero beach in anything other then a 2011 Toyota Corolla with no a/c and a half baked driver, how am I supposed to feel confident they can send me in a pc12 safely?
(posted a poll, if it works)
In my professional opinion, there’s only a matter of time till a reservist like me gets forced to ride on it at 2 am, hard IMC, single engine over the Appalachians.
if the company can’t even deadhead me from Orlando to Vero beach in anything other then a 2011 Toyota Corolla with no a/c and a half baked driver, how am I supposed to feel confident they can send me in a pc12 safely?
(posted a poll, if it works)
Real world the PC12 is a VERY formidable weather flying airplane
11-27-2025 | 06:38 AM
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Real world worrying about a engine failure resulting in death in a PC12 or C208 that’s remotely maintained (let alone 135ed) is just fear porn
11-27-2025 | 08:09 PM
#26
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From: DOWNGRADE COMPLETE: Thanks Gary. Thanks SWAPA.
It sure is. Which of course has nothing to do with the fact that it still only has one engine. A very reliable engine, but still only one nevertheless.
11-27-2025 | 08:38 PM
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age old counter point though, the king air has twice the chance of an engine failure. And then you’re trusting them boys to not VMC you…
