----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith" <akw@mcb.net>
To: <office@singleturbine.org.uk>; Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 2:32 PM
Subject: Single Engine Turbine operations


> SET
>
> As a high years but low hours PPL/IMC who only qualified in his sixties,
> I am delighted to be able to have a Cessna 208b as my private and
> personal transport. See N4024W on www.airliners.net
>
> After piston engined singles I wanted a better safety 'bank balance' and
> looked at twins of piston and turbine types.
>
> I studied the characteristics of all types and based my decision on real
> statistics as opposed to strongly held prejudices (though plenty of
> these were on offer). The history said it all and the Caravan suited my
> style of mainly VFR, small fields, single crew etc. I was strongly
> influenced by the number of EFATO in twins where even experienced pilots
> failed to save themselves with the remaining engine.
>
>  I was lucky enough to get a right seat ride on a Caravan being
> delivered trans-Atlantic, by the Greenland-Iceland route and this turned
> out to be an interesting, low stress affair where the main feature was
> that a new aircraft of this spec gave a lot more peace of mind than a
> twin of uncertain past and ageing systems.  The redundancy was located
> in the ancillary areas most likely to fail- electrical power, avionics,  
> other instrumentation- rather than in the engine which already has the