IMHO the PC12 is a great machine.
You do not need to search too far back into the PPRUNE archives to read all the chest beating and bravado espoused by some about the Cessna Caravan ( also a great aircraft ), people stating the aircraft was statistically not ever going to have a engine failure and subsequently take a life.
Well that has been proven incorrect a great number of time.
An engine failure in any aircraft is not an "IF" statement, it is a "WHEN" statement, granted the turbine engine is expodentially more reliable than a piston, instead of an engine failure every 10,000 hours as suggested in pistons it may be every 100,000 hours for a turbine, but it does happen.
So in 100,000 flight hours a Baron will have 20 engine failures, very very unlikely to have two fail at the same time and the single engine turbine will have one, combining good gliding range with a well trained pilot, well it may infact be a good outcome.
For a B200 it will have two engine failures in the same 100,000 hours, the likelyhood of both emgines failing at the same time is any ones guess, and a B200 will climb at max weight on one engine.
The succes in the implementation of the single engine turbine into the trusted IFR role may be a Pyrrhic victory in the long term ( in your face Wiz ), time will tell.
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