Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #62666
From: Matt Hapgood <matt.hapgood@alumni.duke.edu>
Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] Cessna Diesels and New Turbine Engine
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:43:16 -0400
To: <lml@lancaironline.net>
Except the gas burning 182 was an old price.  The analysis below assumes a new gas 182 would have held the same price.  Who knows whether or not a gas-powered 182 would have had a 10% price increase for the new year…

Matt

From: Frederick Moreno <frederickmoreno@bigpond.com>
Reply-To: Lancair List <lml@lancaironline.net>
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 8:09 AM
To: Lancair List <lml@lancaironline.net>
Subject: [LML] Cessna Diesels and New Turbine Engine

Gas burning 182: $443,500.  Diesel burning 182 (11 gallons per hour):  $515,000.  Difference $71,500.  Depending on assumptions, savings from  fuel repays capital cost in maybe 2000-3000 hours.  Interest on purchase load is 7%, and the annual cost for additional interest is about $5000.  Can you save this much per year to break even and save nothing?  Hmmmm....   Sounds unconvincing to me.   Going to have a marketing problem. 
 
However, in parts of Africa and elsewhere where there is no avgas and thus no other option....
 
F
  
With this kind of engine in the pipeline,
240HP turbines sucking 28-32 gph are going to have a marketing problem.
 
Wolfgang

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