flyboywbl
3rd regional in 1 year
Any one else in the same situation as me? I'm coming up on my multi engine commercial and the DA-42 Twin Star that i fly, has engines that are no longer under warranty. Teilert engines went bankrupt so when the engines go under 400 hour, they are gonna need 60,000 dollars (per engine i think) of overhauling not covered by the engine manufacture. The owner of the plane does not want to pay this so i have two things to worry about. If the plane breaks we are not gonna pay to fix it and if the hours get high enough the plane is grounded as well.
Diamond is trying to come up with a solution. One thing our owner can do is buy the Teilert 2.0 L engines for about 100,000 dollars a piece but they would have NO warranty (dumb). Two, we can wait for diamond to build their own turbo diesel engine (could be up to a year). There is an option to put Lycoming engines on it and it will run on av gas instead of Jet A.
So the owner does not get totally hosed there has been talk of parting out the plane (selling the engines before they break or go into overhaul) to some one who needs them.
There is talk of Diamond buying out Teilert but Diamond denies this.
Personally i think Diamond should stand behind their plane and either pay for the overhauls or pay for the new engines. Right now they are offering something like 30% off the new Diamond turbo diesel's to DA-42 owners but who knows when they will come out. Obliviously they could not pay for the new motors or they would go out of business.
Any way i was just wondering if any one else was in this boat and what they are doing to remedy the situation. It just kind of sucks because i've payed thousands of dollars learning in this plane only for it to go down right after i get my MEI and can actually get paid to fly it. the 50+ hours of multi time won't ever go away but still it's not a good situation.
-Matt
Diamond is trying to come up with a solution. One thing our owner can do is buy the Teilert 2.0 L engines for about 100,000 dollars a piece but they would have NO warranty (dumb). Two, we can wait for diamond to build their own turbo diesel engine (could be up to a year). There is an option to put Lycoming engines on it and it will run on av gas instead of Jet A.
So the owner does not get totally hosed there has been talk of parting out the plane (selling the engines before they break or go into overhaul) to some one who needs them.
There is talk of Diamond buying out Teilert but Diamond denies this.
Personally i think Diamond should stand behind their plane and either pay for the overhauls or pay for the new engines. Right now they are offering something like 30% off the new Diamond turbo diesel's to DA-42 owners but who knows when they will come out. Obliviously they could not pay for the new motors or they would go out of business.
Any way i was just wondering if any one else was in this boat and what they are doing to remedy the situation. It just kind of sucks because i've payed thousands of dollars learning in this plane only for it to go down right after i get my MEI and can actually get paid to fly it. the 50+ hours of multi time won't ever go away but still it's not a good situation.
-Matt