I couldn't stomach it in a single, despite the excellent reliability of SETP. I bought my Turbo Commander for about a 10th of what a used PC12 costs. The Garrett's burn the same amount of fuel as the single PT6 and both of them together cost less to overhaul than the big block PT6's. And have longer TBO. OK, it's old, probably looks a little funny to some and it doesn't have the new plane smell, etc. Still about $3million cheaper. Listen, I love the PC12, think it's an awesome machine, I'm just always surprised at the financial lengths people will go to to just to fly something that's new, but has no performance or cost benefit.
Even sadder is how that reflects on aviation: no real performance advancement/economic advantage has been achieved in about 40 years....
Last edited by AdamFrisch; 9th Feb 2017 at 13:33.