Comanche 400

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Aymi
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Location: France - LFBD

Re: Comanche 400

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indeed. Since our maintenance station is one of the few in europe still specialized on King Airs, we see a lot of different planes. They are like a modern hot rod, everyone has it's own customized King Air with funny features. A small list of variations :

- The bizjet with luxury interior and toilets
- The commuter, like a 10-seat dash 8
- The navaids calibration ones, with antennas everywhere and ectronics benchs all around the cabin
- The firefighter/medevac ones with IR cameras and stretchers/medical stuff in the cabin
- The electronic warfare ones with extra tanks and weird classified electronics (B350ER, they look very good)
- The Jeep, nothing fancy but an IR camera in the nose to make sure that there are no cows in the way when doing night bush landings

A bit shy to share work pics but they all are very fancy and colourful.

From a maintenance point of view, they are easier to work with than a car. The only unpleasant tasks I can think of are the ones related to the cabin/passenger compartment. Lots of fragile parts in the walls/roof/floor fittings. Some parts in the cockpit are hard to reach without removing everything (like when you need to check something under the throttle pedestal). But beside that... Truly reliable and thrustworthy machines.
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AKar
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Re: Comanche 400

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Aymi wrote:- The electronic warfare ones with extra tanks and weird classified electronics (B350ER, they look very good)
SIGINT and EW is fun stuff, I collect. Especially when they don't basically stamp or Dymo the designations of the boxes on the sides of 'em. :mrgreen:

-Esa

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