PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Airtours C404 crash report
View Single Post
Old 6th August 2001 | 16:32
  #59 (permalink)  
gaunty

Don Quixote Impersonator
 
Joined: Jul 1999
Posts: 3,402
Likes: 0
From: Australia
Post

Raw Data
Exactly right.

411A
The figures are correct but the excess on the C441 is NOT as a result of any EFATO certification requirement, rather the marketing/design SHP required to produce the target 290KTAS at FL330.
If I recall correctly though the actual climb gradient produced is not all that different.

Although having said all that I would rather be in a C441. I have operated both and the C500 series as personal transport, the C404/421C win hands down in operating economics v speed/range. It is dificult to separate the C441 from the C500 series in overall performance with the prize going to the C441 on sheer range (I've put up 1900nm FL330 +35kts and landed with 90 minutes, but the C441 wins hands down in economics v speed/range.
Overall IMHO Cessna could no longer justify continued production of the C441 as I suspect it was too close to the C500s performance without offering the FAR25 protection.
It was a B200 killer every day.

But that is beside the point, it is the FAR23 v 25 argument that I am on about.
gaunty is offline