Eclipse in serious trouble?
 

Does not look good at all.

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Click also on the title of the article, Nov. 13.

Regards
E.B.

If they do fold, what are the implications for the supposedly imminent EASA certification? Is the certification process immediately put on hold?

The implications are that the EASA certification process will cease immediately. In fact I understand that the process has already ground to a halt some weeks ago, due lack of interim payment. I would be alost impossible for a third party to resurrect.

But they are not the only ones. PIPER appears to be in serious difficulty and has:( been unable to re-finance. I am told that if they survive Christmas it will be a good result.

Piper has other immediate problems as well.
Apparently, their Meridien prop-jet airplane has serious issues with corrosion to the engine inlet case.
They had P&W Canada use magnesium and now corrosion issues are a big problem.
If I had a new Meridien and the engine had to come out after 200 hours to have this fixed (at my expense, no less...IE: no warranty repair possible) my lawyer would see to it that the company would pay, BIG time.:(:(

I wonder if they can find any buyers for the 400-programme?
Personally I think the VLJ are dead as a moneymaker.

Eclipse gets EASA certification
 

Just heard that EASA gave Eclipse full certification - has anyone else heard this?

Eclipse - EASA
 

Yes, just got the press release

Mark

Comments on E500? Anyone flown it?

/A airplane
 

It is purely a /A aircraft. All that glas you see..... none of it works.

It is not a FULL certification, it is private only, FIKI and RVSM however some adjustement need to be done dual mode S Xponders, VNG1.5; a third attitude etc.. for EU-OPS 1 certification, wait for 2009...

more sbs and AD to come TL , pitots, fuel fillers..

Yep, one flight, one hour...VFR only
The plane itself flies very nice, stick forces are heavier then I expected but "nice" heavy.
The avionics were ( at least then, last march) inferior to Garmin 1000
Literally half the functions were not certified back then.
Displays have a lesser resolution then G1000 so I thought they were a little fuzzy even. Speed and altitude bugs are hollow vs. solid so difficult to pick out.
For the latest and greatest and not so great on Eclipse I've been reading the following blog for years now:
http://www.eclipsecriticng.*************/

Thanks. Interesting site.

Just got a whole lot worse.

The FAA have restricted all high level flight operations due to a series of engine surges.

Well, restricted from high-level flight above FL370.

Link to the AD Airworthiness Directives; Eclipse Aviation Corporation Model EA500 Airplanes

The AD says that carbon build-up on the static vane of the PW 610F-A engines could result in engine surges and, "In some cases, this could result in flight and landing under single-engine conditions."

I find this a strange statement - assuming each engine has its own static vane (and I'm not an engineer, so I stand to be corrected), and assuming that one engine is likely to accumulate as much carbon build-up as the other at levels above 370, should not the statement caution that a complete loss of engines could result?

Eclipse files for Chap 11 bankruptcy...
 

Hrmn, remove safety features _and_ increase the price... a difficult sell, although I do appreciate business trade offs are most often more complex than ever communicated.

According to the limited info above, they are pricing icing technology and avionics upgrades at $40-90 million...

Anyone on pprune with any facts?