The upgraded version and the new option coming off the production line will be called the Ec135T2i/P2i.
MGB oil changed from the synthetic one currently in use, to the old mineral oil which has proven more effective.
Compulsory X-Y bracket change to titanium.
New Fadec software (IEMD).
Mod to the CAT A setup (adjusting Nr by 3% for take off and landing at 55kts. ECD say its to do with noise abatement (thus keeping their title as the quietest light twin in the world) but its actually to give the revs a kick up the backside to lift a greater APS off the deck.
Other husbandry changes.
This gives you an additional 75Kg (2835 - 2910Kg).Payload (or 20 mins endurance). Is it worth £50,000 - £100,000, depending on mod state)???
What bugs me is that the competition have wrung the Light twin (Jar 27) MAUM to the limit. 109S and 429 are up at 3175Kg and even the 902 has crept up to 6500lb (atleast for everyone else in the world except the UK
).
Why haven't ECD stolen the show and done the same? They would blow the competition out of the water if they did this.
Perhaps they are going to milk the customer all the way to the limit over the next 5 yrs by charging for it
