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You hit the nail on the head. LOP operated correctly in conjunction with a good EDM and well trained pilots will save not only maintiance costs, extend cylinder/valve life but will also save the price of an engine in its life in fuel savings alone.
All up we may have trended data from EDM's saved over maybe 10,000 hours and 6 to 7 years on a range of engines.
It works for us the data proves it, our maintiance bills prove it.
My concern is that in desperation to stay in bussiness a lot of our competion will try and go LOP without management having the knowledge or understanding or training of how to run a fleet LOP and get the most from the data and review their pilots operations to make sure their engines are happy. If not Yr right will keep seeing damage from LOP done wrong.
I like Yr right do hope that it doesn't become to popular as I like to have slight competive edge on the opposition.
