58P V KA
If you read the Ch5 in the MM of a king air and see just how many time life components and inspections are in it, you would cry. A single washer for a wing
bolt, non re usable is 420 quid. For a washer. There are 8 wing bolts and the need greasing and ndt inspections at various times. That's just one tiny example to illustrate my point. Try a 6 year gear inspection at 25 grand and see how much you think it costs to run a KA - It's cruel! Because its twin turbine even part 91 operators must adhere to the intervals in the mm.
Compare that to running a part 91 B58p and the baron looks like a steal by comparison. Consider the king air an order of magnitude more costly. I know both reasonably well, and have flown and helped fix both.
Any of the beechboyz over on the beechtalk forum will concur as its been debated to death over there.
Last edited by irish seaplane; 17th Mar 2013 at 18:03.