VANAGON archives -- October 2002, week 3 (#406)

Date:         Sat, 19 Oct 2002 07:36:21 -0400
Reply-To:     Angus Gordon <agordon@BRIGHT.NET>
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From:         Angus Gordon <agordon@BRIGHT.NET>
Subject:      Re: Increasing horsepower
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Stan wrote:
>In piston driven aircraft the engine rebuilds are dictated by the FAA.
>On non Turbo engines the required rebuild is at 2000 hours...
>
>On Turbo charged engines the required rebuild time is 1000 hours...



This is nonsense. There is no one universal mandated TBO for aircraft engines.
Here is an example of the recommended TBO for Lycoming engines -

http://home.earthlink.net/~tbo/SI1009.pdf

Many of the turbocharged models (those with a T in the prefix)
have recommended TBO's that are as long or longer than some normally
aspirated engines.


Angus




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Angus Gordon                       '89 Carat
NW Ohio                            '86 Syncro

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