Originally Posted by
machtuk
yeah about the same for me when driving the old girls a hundred years ago. I remember one owner whom I did the odd charter for said ROP at all times, like you +50 or two divisions, no probs doing that they donks run like Swiss watches👍LOP was a no no back in my day!
For about the last 1200 hours I ran the chieftain LOP, burning 120 lph instead of 160 lph as I did previously. This was at about the same speed, or faster. When it came time for overhaul, they told me the engines could have run another 500 hours easily. At local fuel prices 40 litres is about $88 Aussie dollars an hour ($65 usd today), about $105,000 AUD in fuel for no apparent damage.
Not to mention there were a huge number of jobs I did that I COULDN’T have completed otherwise, the extended range or greater useful load was a huge plus.
(sorry for the delay, wanted to see how the engines looked after the overhaul before making any statements!)