Yukon aircraft charter question

medvedqc said:
+1 maintenance of PT6 can be a nigthmare ....
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I don't know what hull insurance rates are any more, but back when I was flying I believe it was around 3% of hull value per year - if you had the minimum hours required on floats. So on a $500,000 a/c that would be $15,000 per year. Of course you could just fly without that coverage. :)

At cruise speed of 100-105mph and Otter on floats would probably burn about 35 gallons of fuel per hour. i don't know how much AV gas runs at the dock any more, but I suspect it is over $1.50/L, so you are looking at +$200/hr just in fuel at cruise speeds. Don't forget to add start-up, run-up, taxi, take-off and climb to the total for a trip!
 
Gunnutz said:
Higher.....MUCH higher than $500,000
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Prices have softened a bit over the last few years - you can get a Beaver on floats for about $250K-$300K on floats and a Turbo Otter on floats for about $1M, so I suspect an Otter would be somewhere in between those two.
 
1899 said:
I don't know what hull insurance rates are any more, but back when I was flying I believe it was around 3% of hull value per year - if you had the minimum hours required on floats. So on a $500,000 a/c that would be $15,000 per year. Of course you could just fly without that coverage. :)

At cruise speed of 100-105mph and Otter on floats would probably burn about 35 gallons of fuel per hour. i don't know how much AV gas runs at the dock any more, but I suspect it is over $1.50/L, so you are looking at +$200/hr just in fuel at cruise speeds. Don't forget to add start-up, run-up, taxi, take-off and climb to the total for a trip!
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Try about $2.10 / ltr...........last year.
 
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