For the past week, we have been undertaking extensive inspections of our fleet and our operating procedures. Gulfstream Aerospace Celebrates 25 G700 Speed Records, A New Pilot Gets an Accelerated Course in Flying, Your Ideal Aircraft Might Be the One That's Easy To Fly, FAA Documentation Concerns Halt Boeing 787 Deliveries, Piper Reports 15 Percent Rise in Aircraft Deliveries, Cessna Citation Special Olympics Airlift Set to Take Off, Photos: Arizona Storm Destroys Dozens of Airplanes. The fuselage, wings, tail and forward wing of the airplane are metal, though admittedly metal that has been shaped and smoothed in a way that makes a compound curve look like childs play. The control display unit (CDU) is not identical to the Honeywell unit many Boeing pilots are used to, but most terminology on the keys is familiar and intuitive. Try using low-flow fixtures. In the end, the Avanti IIs configuration allows it to achieve light jet speeds in the same way as light jets do, by using a very small, highly loaded wing to go with a good dose of power. A CEO and board that has taekn this company into a downward spiralouot of business in 3 monthsnice stock price!! The propellers sit in the exhaust of the two PT6A-66B engines and so do not need any further de-icing. The biggest problem I had was in remembering that I wasnt flying a jet and that mounted 30 feet in back of me, completely out of sight, were two turboprop engines. The hours they slave him out for is shameful Please contact me at the e-mail address below if you are interested. The original $5.00 stock traded at .11 cents today, a loss of 98% of its value. There is no elevator in it; hence, its not a canard. Your management sucks! These inspections and other actions are still underway. The unique rear mounted turboprop engines makes the Avanti instantly recognisable. The fuel penalty for flying in the 20s is not as extreme as it is in turbofan airplanes. WebPostaccident examination revealed both nose gear tires were deflated, and the right main tire had low air pressure. Let me be clear here and confirm that they are just rumors. Piaggio P.180 AFM TC No. The instrument is a dual-purpose gauge showing both torque and interstage turbine temperature (ITT), Tq shown by a green arrow and ITT by a line. While the rate of climb is great, one thing the Avanti II doesnt do is climb or descend at very high indicated airspeeds, the former a condition of available thrust. I got an email at about 10:30 last night saying cancelled for the reasons stated in this email, with the same offer to find me a charter ay my expense. His record is pristine and out of Vegas, PS Albany has treated him so bad. The surface, which like the tail has a considerable amount of anhedral, is ice-protected, as is the windshield, by electric heat. Vref lists the value of a 1990 P180 at $846,600 ranging up to $6.1 million for a 2019 Avanti Evo. If the fleet was grounded last saturday then why were pilots sent out assignments to fly? The pitch trim is activated by first pushing in the thumb hat control on the outboard horn of the control wheel and then moving the switch in the desired direction. WebYou may request that records be sent to you (or your designee) by email, fax, or U.S. mail. If anyone in North Florida is interested let me know. 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By this I mean the Evo turns through the same number of degrees as your feet move on the pedals until you put in a sustained input when the full nosewheel deflection of 50 degrees is felt and the turning circle feels extremely nimble and asymmetric braking is not needed. Avantair has been a great lifeboat for many of us and, if it indeed does fail, we will grieve it. Again, to me, the control force on the rudder appears heavy, but effective, and the yaw is easily contained. I know both crews involved in the Flint, MI and the elevator incident. Furloughs.too bad. Most charter operators fly the Avanti II with a crew of two. Several years ago I shared a King Air 200 with another company which was great until the partner got into financial trouble and couldn't pay their half. In flight, the Avanti handles much like its competition, but the jet-like takeoff and landing speeds, lack of FADEC, narrow gear track, twitchy electric steering, and grabby carbon brakes combine to make the airplane more of a handful than your run-of-the-mill King Air or Cessna Conquest. Ive removed Kyles email address above since this is not a pilot placement service, and Ive also deleted a charter companys post trolling for business from Avantair customers. They are completely disconnected from operations and maintenance and some in the operation would argue 'reality' should be added to that list. At 400 feet, Lorenzo handed me control for my first landing. (Please expect us to be bashed by current Avantiar employees. The caution terrain aural warning was sounding continuously as Villi maneuvered us to the left in visual conditions to fly around the hill, inconveniently placed on the extended certerline of the runway. Piaggios P180 Avanti created quite a splash with its 1990 certification in the United States. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Luckily it was 2007 and we sold it just before the crash. With our new processes and procedures, Avantair will satisfy the heightened requirements governing the largest aircraft types in our industry. This buffet, although it feels like a stick shaker through the column, is all aerodynamic from the forward wing and serves as an excellent stall warning. Piaggio Aero, on the other hand, is still steadily producing its model. The front office of the Avanti Evo is the Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21. You need to check your facts pal, they offered voluntary leaves to avoid furlough up until recently a handful of people have been fired for the slightest error in judgement. It is not, at least not primarily. I selected terrain on my PFD to map the coastline. Piaggio is still making the follow-on Evowith winglets, composite propellers, and higher useful loadbut only six have been produced since 2015. When we resume operations, we will have the most reliable fleet in our industry embracing the highest standards in aviation, said Mr. Santo. As the flaps travel, there is a nose up pitch that is easily counteracted with slight forward pressure on the column and trim. Stay tuned. My friend, the Captain, requested the FO remain with the passengers, who continued their verbal tirade as the Captain DID complete a postflight, although abbreviated under duress. WebAt approximately the same time, the Piaggio P.180 received a traffic advisory. Criminal Records include Lansing arrests, arrest warrants, search warrants, Its also placed very far back on the fuselage, which allows a few important design features. Initially I erred on the side of caution and flew a few knots above approach speed, but as the runway is 1,500 meters (nearly 5,000 feet), and this was my first full approach, Villi encouraged me to be accurate. #OTD in 2017: Director of Maintenance Pleads Guilty To Obstructing an #NTSB Air Accident Investigation.https://t.co/P84ir4v0L5 #flightsafety #aviationsafety #aviationmaintenance pic.twitter.com/fA2oHltndZ, This information is added by users of ASN. By December 2020, 246 Piaggio P.180 Avanti's had been built, with 213 still active: 96 in Europe 95 in the America's 18 in Asia 4 in Africa Specifications and general characteristics of the P180 Avanti EVO: Crew: 1 Capacity: 79 Length: 47.3 feet Wingspan: 46.0 feet Height: 13.0 feet Wing area: 172 square feet] Empty weight: 8,375 lbs departed the aircraft. An FAA spokeswoman told me that the grounding was not initiated by the agency, so Im not sure where you got this information. But this time no airplanes will return to service until next week, if ever. If range is the mission, getting the Avanti up to FL410 and cruising about 300 KTAS will yield a near-1,500 nautical mile range while still cruising as fast as the competition. The Nov. 16, 2011 engine failure and emergency landing at Flint, MI and veering off the runway and flipping on its back (all 4 occupants suffered minor injuries) shows pilot poor skills for sure and serious concern about engine maintenance. Its a hard transition for a pilot coming back to PT6s after having flown modern fadec turbofans from Williams and, yes, from Pratt & Whitney. Companies in trouble do this to avoid the panic of "furlough" status. While I flew, Villi checked the Airplane Flight Manual and the performance graphs corroborated these figures to within a couple of knots at ISA +5. When the crew explained that MYF was below approach minimus due to the CAT B limitation, the owner used abusive language and accused them of lying. But it didn't help in the fact VNR was born in the Decade from hell. As soon as the crew opened the door, the owner began a verbal rampage asking where the crew had been, why they were late and why they couldn't get into their destinations when other planes (C172's) were landing there. Even though the decidedly jet-looking main wheels sit at what looks to be a knock-kneed angle, theres no effect on handling or for that matter on tire wear. They are a public company and having your fleet grounded is a material issue yet they are not disclosing this issue as far as I can tell. Don. So to Don, you dont happen to live in Vegas do you? Avantair has retained safety expert Nick Sabatini to oversee the project. Once having completed that check, we asked for and got a climb to FL 380, a common long-range cruising altitude for the P.180, which has a ceiling of 41,000 feet. I stayed on the flight director as we climbed, quickly getting into IMC and getting rapid-fire climb-and-maintain clearances along the way. My last four years have been spent flying equipment with fly-by-wire controls and the Avantis flying controls are conventionally connected via cables, pulleys, push pull rods, and bell cranks. The effect is a view that changes substantially as you point the nose up or down in various phases of flight. Takeoff over 50-ft obstacle (sea level) / 3,262 ft I think that it should be obvious to everyone here that comments by Mandarin Jet and a few others should be taken with a grain of salt. The sharp sweepback of the horizontal stabilizer ensures the elevators cannot be aerodynamically blanked by the main wing during a stall and thus remain effective throughout, and the main wing, with its high aspect ratio, is positioned behind the rear pressure bulkhead so that the spar does not pass through the passenger cabin, giving an uninterrupted length of 14.93 ft. The approach speeds are very fast by turboprop standards. Discretion being the better part of valor, I extended the gear early and reduced speed to deploy the flaps, intending to stabilize nice and early so I could concentrate on flying as accurately as possible. At 10:30 I was contacted and told that my flight had been cancelled, and that they would be looking at both charter and commercial flights at their expense. I turned due south and climbed toward the military training area. Cabin dimensions are spacious compared to a Beechcraft King Air and more in line with a midsize jet. On Saturday, fractional provider Avantair grounded its entire fleet of about 60 Piaggio Avanti twin turboprops to conduct a comprehensive examination of all maintenance records and aircraft. According to industry sources, the action stemmed from an incident earlier this year in which an Avantair Avanti shed an elevator in flight. 79 dated 17 As with many airfields in this part of the world, terrain is a complicating factor. As far as the crew that experienced the elevator loss, now you will hear the rest of the story.. Due to low ceilings at the destination airport, the crew diverted to the alternate, SAN. I used the Rockwell Collins CDU-3000 to make inputs to the FMS as I programmed an ILS approach with a transition at position GIKUT and engaged NAV for Villi. On first glimpse, the cabin interior is impressive, with a two-place bench seat opposite the door, a single sideways-facing seat on the same side as the door and four club-arranged seats leading to a full privacy toilet. 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