4 Light Twins that can Replace Overpriced Singles

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Those in the market for a plane that can carry 4 passengers always want a Cessna or a Cirrus. When they realise, they can’t afford one, they consider other options. Single engine market has some pretty great offerings, but why don’t anyone ever look in the direction of twins? if you define the GA twin engine plane market is as dead, you wouldn’t be wrong. Diamond Aircraft control more than half of all GA twin sales, because their planes are the best or the segment is completely overlooked? how great are planes in this segment?
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At 4:14 into the video, the commentator misstates the Diamond twin's fuel consumption as "miserable" instead of "miserly" as shown in the accompanying subtitle.

larryg
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No mention of the Twin Comanche, probably the best personal piston engine aircraft ever made.

ldmax
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"Even with one engine shut down there is enough power to arrive at the scene of the accident.'

jayreiter
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Twin engine aircraft are an excellent value and safer than singles IF: proper training, and maintenance is present.
The reason statistics show otherwise is myriad events where the second engine gets you out of trouble, no one ever knows and no data is recorded.

danielgoodson
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It is unfortunate that so many of the DA42 specs are grossly inaccurate. The SE service ceiling is 16, 000’ (on a standard day, 50 feet/minute SE climb rate). Fuel consumption is ridiculously low in the Diamond twins (and DA40 with the Austro). The author should really put in correction captions in the video - detracts from credibility otherwise. Also, the piece starts out by talking why people looking at expensive singles for their personal flying should consider light twins as an alternative (agreed), but then concludes that the “Seminole is going to remain the number 1 choice for the training market.” Talk about completely changing the point of your video! I also think the Tecnam twin is a nice alternative to a lot of other 140 knot personal singles - and their new interiors are among the nicest in the segment, actually, right up there with Diamond interiors (much nicer than a Seminole interior….)

cyoda
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Great video, If you would be good if you added a comparison of rental rates, single engine service ceiling and complexity of engine failure for each model listed.

davejones
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Great video, I did my multi engine command instrument rating on the Duchess, and did one renewal on the Tecnam P2006T, great planes and fun to fly

ch
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I have done my MEP training in the tecnam P2006T and I can say it is really cold in there, having the two engines far away from the cockpit. Maybe it is better in the summer.

peepa
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Diamond go to commercial schools for commercial reasons. Best twin cheap, Seminole. Next Duchess.

flybobbie
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Those specifications on the Seminole are quite optimistic. If you want to cary 4 people they have to average 135lbs or you can't fly with full tanks. It's a great trainer, but you'd be better off with any number of singles over the Seminole.

A.J.
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Interesting fact is fatalities are higher in twins with a single engine failure, than engine failure in a single. This is counterintuitive at first, but makes sense as so many singles are slow. Cheers

danbenson
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Where did you get your specs. on the Diamond DA-42? You are way off on engine horsepower and single engine performance. Max. single engine altitude is 16, 000 ft with much better climb rate to that altitude than you specify. With 168 hp per side it is a good performer with better Jet A1 consumption than most comparable single engine planes.

phillip
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My school has 11 Da-42s, and at any giving time, there are 4-5 operational, the others have engines problems, since they are over-complicated engines, and it takes several weeks to get parts in.

kylemccartney
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Cessna skymaster… with GAMIs, 18gph 150 knots, 1000 miles, with full fuel AND 950 pounds in the cabin. Under 75k for non turbo.

jimdigriz
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I am one of the caretakers of 5 count them 5 BE-76 Duchess and yes finding parts for these fun well designed airplanes is not easy.
Throw in the fact that the last AD on the A-frames of the landing gear will set you back 9000 k $ per side to be compliant and you can see why these lovely ladies are slowly disappearing 😢.
So you are left with the choice to do the MANDATORY 100 hour NDI testing on said PN: ( it is a real pain taking it off every 100) and send out for testing by a level 2 NDI tester.
All this said i still love them. 😂 good luck.

michaeljohn
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Let's, take a look, Light twins in general cannot Fly on only One engine. Engine overhauls are expensive and you have two of them to do. Operating costs are higher in general. These are the main reasons why light twins are cheap and not as popular as singles. Yes I own a single and have for over 40 years.

davidcollier
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If you are flying cross country, can you turn on auto pilot and doze off at the wheel for 5 minutes?

johnnyg
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where did you find the 240/hr rental for the tecnam?

yohanauguuste
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Light twins are not under rated. The light twins that have similar performance figures as big singles and were only intended to be used for training are over rated.

Saml
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Rental rates are a bit off in my opinion. For example a Tecnam P2006 in my local flight school is $435/hr wet.

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