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Old 30th Nov 2017, 00:50
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Originally Posted by Connedrod
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Whats is interesting is the choice of engines. Seams they gone for the pt6. Had they gone for the GE it woyld have been a game changer for GE. Fedex was the reason forthe pt6 to get the single engine ifr charter certification. Had they gone with ge and proved its reliable would have give ge some extremly strong data for the same

So, P&W got single engine IFR certification due to the record of single engine IFR operations on the caravan with FedEx ... Taking that at face value, how would putting GE's engine on a multi-engine airplane help them gain single engine certification?
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