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Old 12th Jul 2003, 00:41
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IO540
 
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I honestly don't think FADEC is an issue at all for training. There are far more differences between e.g. a DA40 and a typical school plane, not least that a DA40 will have a lot more stuff in the panel and, being a new aircraft, the stuff is likely to work!

I did my PPL in C150s, PA38s, C152s and while all of these had a mixture lever, nobody ever told me what to do with it, other than shutting the engine off with it.

And if someone has done their PPL in a DA40, they will never want to get inside, let alone fly, anything else that is normally on offer!

Last time I spoke to Diamond the diesel DA40 was listed at about 160k + VAT so I don't think everybody will be worrying about this anyway
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