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If you're this far into the swap, you should give some thought to whether you want to be carbed for another engine life. If I were doing it, the answer is no. I've had no problems with the 470-50 but injection is just better. And yeah, I could change it out now, but the engine has less than...

Before you write the check I can set you up with a king-bed room with in OSH for $60/night.

Smoke is easy to spot when somebody is blowing it.

Mumbo-jumbo smokescreens don't feed the bulldog.

Yep, price is now down to $399,500. Firm.

The absurdity of his assumptions provides more than sufficient evidence of his knowledge about how things work. Maybe someday he will see a laptop and the lightbulb will glimmer.

If he covers his eyes and whines you'll know you need some dual.

What did you learn from the last one?

Even funnier that before year-end we will help place at least three XLS copilots, a couple of Citation captains for various models and a couple of King Air jobs are likely, so we kinda understand how that market works. We'll try to hire people we know or know about (and hopefully local to...

Over the next few months we'll be looking for three XLS copilots, an XLS captain, an Encore copilot and couple of others. All Dallas-based jobs, timing will depend on the projected in-service dates. Our last available local guy took a new job last week. The market for pilots is better...

So the answer is that if you have a MM, necessary mules, jacks, pressure cart, power cart and somebody that knows how to do it, any shop can maintain them.

When I was plane shopping, a guy whose info I was inclined to believe told me that Knopp designed the -50 for mogas but that his STC was being delayed by the FAA over some BS detail so he agreed to drop the mogas if they would just approve it so he could sell some engines and generate some cash...

Tell us about all the fun you're having flying your plane.

Well, the head guy said to get right on it because the plane was AOG. :P

I feared for a moment that you had fallen into the HNC trap.

You can sell your 425 and buy your Citation-II back by using the same formula. :D

Safe to assume that's the same plane you complained about not being able to fly because you work all the time? Since you seem to be concerned about monthly time logged, how much have you booked this year going places you wanted to go with no time constraints or other obligations?

You need at least the better part of a year, including an inspection of substance (usually the annual) to really get a feel for the requirements and intervals and also a SWAG for the oopsies. After that, you'll know.

Give him a buy-or-sell price and let him pick the option.

No hairs being split here, pards, just examples of how things can turn out and how much billing should be attached. The code regards the rest of this thread that discusses cost of mx and how they are billed. Read back through and you'll see them.