AOPA Pilot Magazine - January 2016 - 40

PILOT BRIEFING
HOURLY COSTS
OF JETS COMPARED
At AOPA's request, aircraft purchase
advisor Conklin & de Decker estimated the hourly operating costs for 45
jets at the recent NBAA convention.
These are variable costs and include
fuel, maintenance (parts and labor),
engine reserves, auxiliary power
units if applicable, and miscellaneous
expenses to include crew travel,
catering and cabin supplies, landing
and parking fees-all boiled down to
a single number. David Wyndham,
president and co-owner of Conklin &
de Decker, made the comparisons.
As a quick summary, the least expensive to operate is a Cirrus Vision
SF50 jet at $661.53 per hour. The
most expensive is a private airliner.
The Airbus ACJ320 ultra-long-range,
large-cabin business jet comes in at
$7,964.69 per hour.
See the full list of hourly operating
costs for the 45 jets online (www.
aopa.org/operatingcosts).
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TEST PILOT ANSWERS

from page 37

1. One can only wonder how those buried beneath Runway 10 at the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport in
Georgia can be resting in peace.
2. It is a back-course marker that indicates the location of the final approach
fix of a back-course ILS approach. It is
the point at which the final-approach
descent should begin.
3. The Piper Apache was the first (1954).
The other 10 (in alphabetical order) are
the Aztec, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Comanche, Dakota, Mojave, Navajo, Pawnee,
Seminole, and Seneca. Piper also developed the Arapaho and the Pocono, but
these never entered production.
4. Large airplanes appear to move
slower because it takes longer for them
to travel a distance equal to their own
length, and this is the subconscious reference that an observer uses to estimate
speed.

5. The Chance-Vought F4U Corsair also
was known as "Old Bent Wing" and
"Hose Nose." Its high-pitched whistling
sound terrorized Japanese on the ground
and was caused by the whistling sound
of air entering its inlet ducts.
6. (d) Medical assistance is required.
The complete ground-to-air visual code
is presented in Chapter 6 of the Aeronautical Information Manual.
7. Aviophobia is a fear of flying. It is not
aerophobia, which is a fear of drafts of
air, gasses, or airborne matter.
8. Any of the five space-shuttle orbiters:
Atlantis, Challenger, Columbia, Discovery, and Endeavor. The same was true of
the research vehicle, Enterprise, but it
was not capable of orbital flight.

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