Jodel owners: What are your typical annual maintenance costs, and hourly variable costs (including engine and prop fund)?
Are my assumptions below roughly correct?
Fixed / maintenance costs:
* 100-hour inspection: wild guess
GBP 1000 per year on average?
* Annual:
GBP 1000 per year on average with high standard deviation
* 50-hour inspection: Can do self (in UK or Germany)?
GBP 300 per year?
* Bureaucratic stuff: national permit to fly, radio license, ... about
GBP 1000 per year
(Hangarage, insurance, etc omitted as they're highly individual.)
=> About
GBP 3500 fixed costs (excluding hangarage and insurance).
Variable costs:
* Assuming 25 lph Avgas / Mogas mix. Conservatively, Avgas GBP 2.5 per litre and Mogas GBP 1.5 per litre, so about GBP 2 per litre for a conservative 50-50 mix, gives
GBP 50 per hour in fuel.
* Oil and other consumables: less than
GBP 3 per hour.
* Engine overhaul: A zero-hour O-200 seems to cost about $15k, so about
$11 per hour given TBO 1800 hours.
* Prop overhaul: Now sure about the Evra prop, maybe $5k every 2000 hours (so conservatively
$5 per hour)?
=> Conservatively about
GBP 65 variable costs.
Total cost per hour when flying 100 hours: GBP 90 (GBP 1000 reduction in fixed cost due to merging of annual and 100-hour inspection), excluding hourly cost of hangar and insurance.