But what is your actual hourly saving and is it worth the additional stress on your engines for the potentially much lower TBO? You decide and your mileage may vary.
400 million hours of flight data supports the fact that when run ROP, the TC-18 radial on the DC-7s had a TBO of 600 hours. When run LOP it had a TBO of 3600 hours. Yep, 3 thousand 6 hundred vs. 6 hundred hours. |