Air Craft Age
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Air Craft Age
I was thinking today for a change and it seems to me that having some sort of age model for aircraft would be cool. The more hours an airplane has the tougher and more expensive it is to repair, to the point where it may be a better idea to scrap a plane and buy a new one.
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i also like the idea, but maybe have only a/c that was made after a certain year could be "aged", like say a/c that came out after the year 1980 it would be aged but a/c that came out before 1980 could be, so they could be classified as a "classic a/c", or somethin like that...
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Mmmm, I'm going to say no to this, our A-check, B-Check (etc) system sort of covers the age thing already, and if you fly with correct models, the extra fuel burn gives another hit against profits. On top of that, with our new 'range' feature, some of the older birds have had their wings clipped, so to speak, and only the newer models can handle longer distances (with more pax).
Also, Leif, and the guys at British Classics would kill me, Konny, and the rest of the flyNET crew if we made their DC-8s fall apart on the runway. :p
Also, Leif, and the guys at British Classics would kill me, Konny, and the rest of the flyNET crew if we made their DC-8s fall apart on the runway. :p
Canvas, speed tape, wire, glue and a small tool kit...
Hey guys,
If your going to make my dear old rapide fall apart taxying out, can you allow me to carry an in-flight repair kit, with instructions so I can get one of the passengers out there patching the old lady up as we happily enjoy our nostalgia flights?
If your going to make my dear old rapide fall apart taxying out, can you allow me to carry an in-flight repair kit, with instructions so I can get one of the passengers out there patching the old lady up as we happily enjoy our nostalgia flights?
sure,
like then....... they'll be stripping down the Whitworth Argosy
to a single boom single engine aeroplane
and straping the pasangers on to it's spine...
It will only be a matter of time before one of them is thinking
He's Jimmy Stewart in The Flight of the Phoenix.
for crying out loud
like then....... they'll be stripping down the Whitworth Argosy
to a single boom single engine aeroplane
and straping the pasangers on to it's spine...
It will only be a matter of time before one of them is thinking
He's Jimmy Stewart in The Flight of the Phoenix.
for crying out loud
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And how he does. He got our name backwards and put a friggin' AMERICAN airplane in with our beautiful British-made aircraft.
Well, guys, I personally think that the only thing that needs to be changed is for the maintenance to be based on hours that continually rack up for the airframe instead of being reset every time you do maintenance on the airplane. I think that once that's set we can start talking about adding modifiers to cost as the airframe racks up hours. However, one thing to consider is that the only reason that there aren't as many 60+ year old aircraft flying is simply because they are running out of airframe life and there are no others of that model to replace them. Their operating economics and maintenance costs are still lower than any new or used airplane on the market. The Convairs are still extremely economical to operate and the aircraft that replaces them is the ATR-42 (CV240) or ATR-72 (CV340/44/580) and they are significantly more expensive to operate than the Convairs, even though the ATRs are 20 or more years younger than the youngest Convair.
Well, guys, I personally think that the only thing that needs to be changed is for the maintenance to be based on hours that continually rack up for the airframe instead of being reset every time you do maintenance on the airplane. I think that once that's set we can start talking about adding modifiers to cost as the airframe racks up hours. However, one thing to consider is that the only reason that there aren't as many 60+ year old aircraft flying is simply because they are running out of airframe life and there are no others of that model to replace them. Their operating economics and maintenance costs are still lower than any new or used airplane on the market. The Convairs are still extremely economical to operate and the aircraft that replaces them is the ATR-42 (CV240) or ATR-72 (CV340/44/580) and they are significantly more expensive to operate than the Convairs, even though the ATRs are 20 or more years younger than the youngest Convair.
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