PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Jabiru Bad experience
View Single Post
Old 20th Jul 2016, 10:12
  #154 (permalink)  
Aussie Bob
 
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: nosar
Posts: 1,289
Received 25 Likes on 13 Posts
Majority of engines with problems were in flight training........all maintained by L2 or LAME Self maintained others saw very few problems. Older versions even less
Jetjr, I think you have this backwards. Flying training has a far better record than owner maintained. The private self maintained ones I have seen seldom do 500 hours between major work. The ones in the flying school I worked for regularly reached 1000 hours untouched and were returned to the factory for an exchange in lieu of doing a top end overhaul. Ditto for other flying schools that I know that operate Jabs

Using a Jab engine daily seems to be good for reliability. Ones that sit in hangers for weeks or months at a time don't seem to last many hours. Outdoor storage with infrequent use is a recipe for early failure.
Aussie Bob is offline