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- Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:01 pm
- Forum: DA42 Forum
- Topic: 2023 DA42 VI for sale
- Replies: 7
- Views: 751
Re: 2023 DA42 VI for sale
She’s a beauty, professionally flown and maintained but taking delivery of a SF50 today so time for her next home. Amazing daily driver or use it to build multi, retractable time for next step! https://youtu.be/BxRN63TjNl4?si=RS9m60O2kD61sZSJ Congrats on your new plane. If you don't mind me asking,...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:48 pm
- Forum: Travel & Destinations
- Topic: Flying Around Mexico 2024 (Part 3) - to Veracruz
- Replies: 6
- Views: 311
Re: Flying Around Mexico 2024 (Part 3) - to Veracruz
Fabulous video as always.
I'm assuming you and/or someone in your group of 3 spoke Spanish. Could someone who only spoke English realistically make your same trip?
I'm assuming you and/or someone in your group of 3 spoke Spanish. Could someone who only spoke English realistically make your same trip?
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:43 pm
- Forum: DA42 Forum
- Topic: Above FL180
- Replies: 5
- Views: 288
Re: Above FL180
When I visited the Austrian factory years ago to pick up my new DA42-VI and ferry it across the Atlantic, the Diamond pilot who accompanied me on the trip said that the factory had flown a DA42-VI above 30,000 feet. I'm certainly not recommending that, but it demonstrates that Austro engines should ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:52 pm
- Forum: DA50 Forum
- Topic: DA50 vs The World
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3865
Re: DA50 vs The World
I am wondering about the endurance. Why do they have that massive wing and only 49 gallons? The DA50 shares the same outer wings and fuel tanks as the DA40, DA42, and DA62. Each wing contains up to 25 gal (19 gal in the DA40NG) aluminum fuel tanks located between twin carbon fiber wing spars. These...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:38 pm
- Forum: Austro
- Topic: Diamond China announce its own 'independently designed' domestic aircraft diesel engine, the 'AEC2.0L'
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1414
Re: Diamond China announce its own 'independently designed' domestic aircraft diesel engine, the 'AEC2.0L'
A Chinese made knock off of an Austro diesel. Sign me up. How about an Austrian made knock off of a German Mercedes diesel? (i.e., the core of Austro AE300/AE330 engines, ever since Austro used up its supply of Mercedes OM640 engines) The quality of these engines might not be much different, especi...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:54 pm
- Forum: Austro
- Topic: Diamond China announce its own 'independently designed' domestic aircraft diesel engine, the 'AEC2.0L'
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1414
Re: Diamond China announce its own 'independently designed' domestic aircraft diesel engine, the 'AEC2.0L'
The engine will replace Austro Engine's current model on light aircraft DA40 and Da42 made by Austria's Diamond Aircraft and its Chinese partner, CETC Wuhu Diamond Aircraft , said Jin Gebo, Chery's assistant general manager. The main parts will be produced in Chery's factories in Wuhu, Anhui provin...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:05 pm
- Forum: DA50 Forum
- Topic: DA50 vs The World
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3865
Re: DA50 vs The World
For anyone that has ordered or is flying a DA50, I'm wondering why you selected the aircraft? What were the elements of the plane or the company that factored most in your decision? 1. I wanted to buy a DA62 but my wife wanted a single That's unfortunate. If you can afford $1M+ for a new DA50, a DA...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: DA40 Forum
- Topic: New member introduction & takeaways
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5787
Re: New member introduction & takeaways
FYI quick thread update - have still not had any DA40 time despite my best efforts…local rental N712PA XLS either down for maintenance or cannot make the few checkout windows work. If you're still looking for a local ride in a Lycoming DA40, N970DS is back in action at KJYO with flight school Aviat...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 2:14 pm
- Forum: Travel & Destinations
- Topic: I-70 Across Continental Divide
- Replies: 13
- Views: 771
Re: I-70 Across Continental Divide
The best E-W routes to get across the Rockies in a normally-aspirated piston plane are I-80 thru Wyoming, I-40 near Albuquerque, or I-10 near El Paso. But you've already flown all 3 of these. While I've flown the "I-70 route" over Colorado, it was in a turbocharged DA42 IFR up at 16,000/17...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:36 pm
- Forum: Austro
- Topic: Diamond China announce its own 'independently designed' domestic aircraft diesel engine, the 'AEC2.0L'
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1414
Re: Diamond China announce its own 'independently designed' domestic aircraft diesel engine, the 'AEC2.0L'
Great research: this announcement certainly raises lots of questions. AEC2.0L engine: AEC = Austro Engine China? CA42 aircraft: DA42 produced in China? It would make sense for a first flight of a new engine to take place in a twin-engined aircraft rather than a single. The engine in the picture look...