whats your oldest engine

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
Thought i would put this post in place , so we can record our oldest engines on the strat , so everyone can see at a glance what engine life they can expect.
engines:-
1 = 45.8 hrs good
2 = 45.9 hrs good
3 = 8.1 hrs excellent
4 = 45.9 hrs good
regards alan.

[Piper_EEWL]

HI,

Nice idea. Mine I currently:

1= 44,7h excellent
2= 101,5h excellent
3= 30,8h excellent
4= 101,9h excellent

I had "sudden and rare" engine failures on 1 and 3 so I had to replace those. I'm currently on my way to Singapore from Townsville Australia. So if everything goes well I can add another 9h to the engine times.

Happy flying

[Piper_EEWL]

Update:

1= 55.7h good
2= 112.4h good turbo repaired after inflight turbo failure
3= 41.8h good
4= 112.8h good

Had a very long flight from Townsville in Australia to Singapore. In flight turbo failure around 800miles out but made it fine. The flight was 9h 54min and 2806nm. Cost per mile $1.09. I'm a little low on fuel. Only 2500lbs remaining and only 372lbs of oil. My longest haul so far.

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
Thanks to a rare FSX crash i have just wasted an entire days flying , it froze as i was decending and getting the ASN weather report for destination , and setting the ils freq , i was passing 13000ft , about 30nm from japan coastline at the time , something about not detecting monitor , no apparent updates came in , so what triggered this i have not got a clue , except my aircraft as recorded the wear an tear of the trip , so i have it all to do again , but with older engines.

engines:-
1 = 53.0 hrs good
2 = 53.0 hrs good
3 = 15.3 hrs excellent
4 = 53.1 hrs good

regards alan.

[Piper_EEWL]

Oh no. That sucks Alan. I'm sure it's super frustrating. I almost screwed up my flight by accidentally hitting the slew key on my sim while pulling into my gate at Singapore! Thankfully COTS seems to record the flight once you're on the ground. So my progress wasn't lost.

Happy flying

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
These are my engine hrs after my last flight from PWAK/RJTT
ENGINES
1 = 61.0 hrs good
2 = 61.1 hrs good
3 = 23.4 hrs excellent
4 = 61.1 good
I now have with pax and guppy done 100hrs of flight in 15 days
regards alan.

[Piper_EEWL]

Finished another flight yesterday:

1= 63,5h good
2= 120,2h good
3= 49,6h good
4= 120,6h good

I'm really looking forward to find out how long the engines can last if they are treated nicely (which I'm trying to do )

Happy flying

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
These are my engine hrs after my last flight attempt from PHNL/RJTT direct , stopped the flight when about 500nm out from japan , res oil1 gal and engines 1/4 went down to 10.5gal , decided to stop flight as i did not think i was going to make it , to ambishous a flight for old engines , ASN was also giveing over 60knt headwinds .
ENGINES
1 = 72.2 hrs good
2 = 72.3 hrs good
3 = 34.6 hrs excellent
4 = 72.3 hrs fair think i will overhaul this one
I now have with pax and guppy done 111.2hrs of flight in 16 days
regards alan.

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
After my 13hr + non stop flight from PHNL/RJTT these are my engine stats
Airframe hrs 97.3
engines
1 86.6 hrs fair (will change prior to next flt)
2 86.7 hrs fair (will change prior to next flt)
3 49.0 hrs good
4 14.4 hrs excellent ( was replaced before flt)
need to find out why i am not getting more from them , as i dont abuse the engines.
regards alan.

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
I thought i would put my guppy engines here as they seem to deteriorate a bit quicker than the pax version , more so if lugging 25000lbs of cargo.
airframe 29.9
engines
1 25.1 hrs good
2 28.3 hrs good
3 24.6 hrs good
4 28.4 hrs good
the engines have been changed on the guppy , more than the pax for two reasons , one i used the guppy when setting up the controls in FSUIPC , and i had problems trying to get the prop reverse to work , and in the process of testing the reverse , damaged the engines , the second reasons is i think to do with the extra large fusalage for its load of 25000 lbs of 3rd stage of saturn five cargo .
regards alan.
P.S. pity there is no career mode for the guppy.

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
Just done a flight from KSEA/PHNL thought i was going to get slated on career but did`nt , weather on decent to PHNL was 060/9 3007 alt setting , weather suddenly changed drastically from clr 10 vis to 4 vis and atis changed to 080/9 3009 alt setting , because of this the dinner was served when i was configured for landing , also severe turbulance caused aircraft to climb , even though stick input was decending aircraft , difficult to stay on beam , landing was ok though.
airframe 107.1
engines
1 09.8 hrs excellent (changed prior to flt)
2 09.8 hrs excellent (changed prior to flt)
3 58.8 hrs good
4 24.2 hrs excellent
regards alan.

[gulredrel]

My oldest engines prior to engine overhaul were on my first PanAm career airplane.
eng 1: 96.3h poor condition
eng 2: 95.7h must overhaul condition
eng 3: 92.3h poor condition
eng 4: 96.1h must overhaul condition

On my Lufthansa career airplane, the engines are as follows:
eng 1: 67.6h fair condition
eng 2: 67.7h fair condition
eng 3: 55.9h fair condition (suffered an engine fire after 11.7h)
eng 4: 67.9h fair condition

Regards
Jens

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
Just took the guppy up for a circuit/landing , ASN screwed the weather up , and not sure if it caused the engine 3 to play up on startup , on shut down the condition as gone from good to fair.
airframe hrs 30.4
engines
1 25.5 hrs good
2 28.7 hrs good
3 25.0 hrs fair
4 28.9 hrs good
regards alan.

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
Just finished a flight from KLAX/PHNL .
Airframe now 116.4 hrs
Engines
1 19.1 hrs excellent
2 19.1 hrs excellent
3 68.1 hrs good
4 33.5 hrs excellent
regards alan.

[alan CXA651]

Hi.
Just done a flight from PHNL/KLAX tailwind all the way , ment i had too much fuel at arrival , being heavy ment a very carefull landing was needed , and i did just that.
Airframe hrs before flt 116.4 after shutdown 124.2
engines
1 before flt 19.1 hrs excellent after shutdown 26.9 hrs excellent
2 before flt 19.1 hrs excellent after shutdown 26.9 hrs excellent
3 before flt 68.1 hrs good after shutdown 75.8 hrs fair (needs overhaul before next long flight)
4 before flt 33.5 hrs excellent after shutdown 41.2 excellent
regards alan.