Guessing from "industry rumors" Asian Spirit is getting the MA-60 just because it is cheap and it probably a political "deal".
No Pilot in his right mind will pay for his conversion training for a MA-60. Who will take him with the rating? There are maybe just a handful of MA-60 operating outside China and which of these are paying well?
According to wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xian_MA60 there are the following operators outside China:
Merpati Nusantara Airlines
Lao Airlines
Zambian Air Force
unknown carrier in the Republic of Congo
Air Zimbabwe
and than Asian Spirit.
the homepage of the MA-60 is super noisy
http://www.ma60.com/, hope the aircraft is not.
The
two Pratt&Whitney PW-127J turboprop engines rated at 2880 eshp each are very common engines and maybe the avionics look Western.
Nobody knows anything about flying characteristics etc.
The cockpit looks like a 80's cockpit
I just can not make up my mind if the design looks like a Y-7 or an old Herald.
