Caravan vs. Supervan

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Hey I've been there, that looks like Big River Lakes at the entrance to Lake Clarke Pass

That supervan is friggin' awesome, I saw one on wheels take off empty at Merrill on a really cold day, and it rotated so nose high I thought that they left a control lock in or something. That thing's a beast!
 
Meh, Fun and all. But if you have to go IFR, I would MUCH rather be flying behind a single PT6 than a single garrett.
At tear down time, the PT6 will look like a swiss watch, and the garrett will look like an experiment in controlled fusion gone wrong.
Time with both engines, and I give the nod to the slow but steady.

Which begs the question: How come they don't stick a -67 in the Van?
 
Meh, don't know how much IFR you want to do with them big ol' floats hanging down there.

I like to add a Kodiak to the mix and see how that does.
 
Doug Taylor said:
I want to see the Supervan versus..... The Dodge Caravan!
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How about this Caravan?

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Itchy said:
Time with both engines, and I give the nod to the slow but steady.
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BLASPHEMY! You know they put those things in backwards, right?

I have time with both, too. About 1400 hours with Garrets, nary a hiccup. About 700 hours with PT6s, and I had one completely self-destruct. Different strokes, I guess.
 
Decent time in both and I agree Garrett > Pratt, 2 reasons, CAWI and 4 levers better than 6.

=Jason-
 
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