Originally Posted by
malabo
Flew a 407GXP recently and was pretty impressed on how improved the whole package was over the original 407 that I’d put some thousand hours into. Not cheap, probably 3-3.5 big ones.
About the same price as a new AW119Kx, which is also running the G-1000H but has one more seat and cruises faster than the max speed a 407 can hit.
But that big ol PT6 sucks the gas. And costs $$$ when you hit overhaul. But, nothing should go wrong with it. It is a PT6 after all.