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rotors88

13th June 2006 11:52

S333

G'day, has anyone out there have any low downs (run cost, fuel burn) the plus's & info on the 333 please. Cheers :ok:

Efirmovich

13th June 2006 13:39

They are never in the air long enough for the costs to be a concern ! !

E.

Graviman

14th June 2006 03:44

http://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/model333/

Mart

Flingwing207

14th June 2006 13:39

In some research we did while looking for a new aircraft it seems to boil down to this. The 333 burns fuel like a Jet Ranger, MX costs halfway between a JR and an R44. So you can roughly figure based on that. Somewhere I have a spreadsheet that sorted it all out, if I find it I'll let you know.

The 333 is really a niche platform - great for utility- patrol, survey, photo, video, light hook work, rides, and turbine training/IFR training. However to carry passengers any distance, you're better off with an R44 or 206, depending on your requirements.

Flight Safety

15th June 2006 02:36

The last I heard the San Antonio, Texas Police department uses them. They were fairly happy with them the last I heard, which was some time ago.

Conklin and De Decker have pretty good products for operating cost evaluation. Well the worth the expense if you're seriously looking.

http://www.conklindd.com/

turbinetaxi

19th June 2006 15:04

Try talking to TAMS they operate five in the uk, and also operate JR's

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