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Old 5th Dec 2018, 03:53
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Originally Posted by bellblade2014


Key differences would be modern startup and dual FADEC thet even the 407 only just received recently, so used ones are still older style governing. Other big difference is crashworthiness. Far superior to baseline comparables. Finally the clean burn of the engine is a nice differentiations in a class dominated by RR engines.
While it has a manual reversion to throttle, and you have to roll the throttle to fly, instead of flick a switch, how exactly is that old style or indeed governing? It is a very good aircraft for a light single.
It isn't pure fadec as the purists would dictate but it is still fadec.
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