Water Meth
 

I speak under correction as a past Airlink J41 driver (it was a while ago) but I think there were about 3 or 4 that did`nt have water meth which were based at the coastal stations-DBN,CT and PE with one hanging around JHB as a spare (in summer anyhow).I think they were the machines they got from Australia.

cheers for that.

I was chatting to our line engineer about it today.

The hub cracking was a problem in SA but never reared its head up our way.

And now this seal problem which again doesn't seem to be an issue.

The only differences in the machines I could think of was that the SA machines where water meth which we don't have fitted in our colder/ low density alt enviroment. I presume they are all 1650's?

BTW what would you guys consider to be a sensible number of hours to be sitting in either the LHS or RHS seat of a J41?

water meth
 

The airlink J41 registrations NRE to NRM(Durban crash) were all 1650 SHP with water meth injection.There was 1 added later to the fleet (IIRC) registration OEX also with water meth.The others OMS.OMZ etc ,I dont recall the registrations were not water meth equipped.A long time since I flew those J41,s:ouch:

If I remember correctly NRE and NRF originally did not have watermeth installed when they were delivered. The next aircraft had some pieces installed at the factory and then every delivery after that a bit more each time. The last few aircraft were delivered fully equipped. The factory sent out a team to complete the instalations on the aircraft