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Plane that made emergency landing Wednesday was experimental Cessna
The Cessna plane that made an emergency landing in a field west of Cheney Reservoir late Wednesday afternoon was a Cessna experimental 182 JT-A equipped with a diesel engine designed to burn jet fuel, the company confirmed Friday. The test pilot, the sole occupant of the plane, was unhurt. The test airplane is part of Cessna’s development program to bring the model to market. According to emergency scanner traffic, the pilot called 911 around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday and told a Sedgwick County… (www.kansas.com) Plus d'info...
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Calling 911 from the plane though?
I suspect this aircraft is aimed at exports, rather than the North American market as Jet A has a price advantage elsewhere.
Bus has Cessna/FAA ever published the cause of this failure?
Bus has Cessna/FAA ever published the cause of this failure?
Who in his right mind would splurge half a million dollars on a disel engine 182 if it is quite posible to buy a second hand Citation, extremely well kept for a bit more than $ 1 million. It is things like this that are detrimental to the advancement of private aviation i.e. single engine aircraft to fly around over week-ends just for the fun of it.
Probably someone who understands that small jets are wildly inefficient to operate.
My understanding from the article is that this is a piston powered aircraft, utilizing a diesel engine, and burning Jet-A in lieu of standard diesel fuel.
Tell that to Messrs. Gulfstream, Bombardier, Dassault, Beech and Embraer.
That their planes cost more to operate than a prop? I... think they know that.
They might agree considering the stage lengths the 182 JetA is flying versus the flight lengths their products are flying. Speaking relatively of course. I do however agree that part of the problem for average pilots aquiring their own a/c is crazy cost. Heck, even a 172 runs you $300k nowadays new. Where does that leave you? The LSA market which may or may not suit your mission requirements, or a used product which you may take a bath on in maintenance.
This is precisely the issue, those exotic "developments" do nothing to make personal aviation affordable
If by affordable you mean cheaper, I don't see that happening. On top of that, purchase price is like half the equation when it comes to real cost of ownership. Direct operating expense, maintainence, insurance, loan expense, and depreciation make up the other half.
