Nail in the coffin indeed. It will destroy Jabiru's export market totally and devalue any Jabiru powered product here to the point where some of us will fly our aircraft until the first sign of an engine problem, then scrap it. I had already arrived at that conclusion. Others may just scrap it anyway, rather than live with the risk - whether real or imagined. Flying schools using the Jabiru product will go the way of the dodo.
It would be interesting to compare the failure rate of Jabiru engines here with that in the USA where they have been quite popular with home builders of Sonex and the like. Then compare with VW, Corvair, Subaru etc both here and in the USA. It may be that our Yank allies actually know something about the care and feeding of engines that we could learn.
Last edited by Mach E Avelli; 13th Nov 2014 at 05:03.