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Old 15th Nov 2003, 07:18
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John Eacott
 
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The Elite vs the Power: The rear pax seat is raked back to give more headroom, but at the loss of 60-70lt fuel capacity. Also, landing lamps built into the stub wings/undercarriage fairings, pax step on starboard side that retracts with the gear, lock on the nose access (and pretty paint on the locks!), different avionics suite, storm lights for both pilots, and the main transmission dampers. The rear pax window is noticeably wider, to accommodate the changed rear seat position.

I haven't noticed any fwd CoG problems, but payload is still very average. Empty weight & fuel burn are the same as my BK117, but MAUW is 500kg less. Full fuel leaves only c160kg for pilot and pax
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