I'm just old fashioned I guess.
08-19-2020, 02:33 PM
#32
I started flying turbines in 1999 with RAM engines. After blowing up a few RAM750's I bought my first AMT Pegasus. That went into a then fiberclassics eurosport. I have owned engines from RAM, AMT USA, AMT NL, jetcat, PST, G Booster, kingtech and Merlin.
over 21 years I have stuck with AMT NL. They have been the most reliable, trouble free engines I have ever owned. I actually had really good luck with all of my PST engines but with a lack of choices in engine sizes and the eventual seeming disappearance of PST for servicing and sales they just were not an engine I wanted to keep using.
I still own a jetcat P70 which is great outside of it randomly needs me to recalibrate the egt sensor. Once that is done it seems to work fine.
The G boosters I had were good but not without their own issues. Once G booster started becoming too hard to follow who owned what and who was making what and the drama started I got rid of them.
I have stuck with what has been the most consistent and reliable products. It's why I am so bummed about JR disappearing. I stick with what continues to work for me.
I am old fashioned. I see all the new fancy stuff with telemetry and extra automated, internal, etc niceties and in my experience a lot of that becomes more things to go wrong and honestly I struggle with the learning curve. So I'll stick with my old school stuff. So long as it keeps working I'll keep flying it.
over 21 years I have stuck with AMT NL. They have been the most reliable, trouble free engines I have ever owned. I actually had really good luck with all of my PST engines but with a lack of choices in engine sizes and the eventual seeming disappearance of PST for servicing and sales they just were not an engine I wanted to keep using.
I still own a jetcat P70 which is great outside of it randomly needs me to recalibrate the egt sensor. Once that is done it seems to work fine.
The G boosters I had were good but not without their own issues. Once G booster started becoming too hard to follow who owned what and who was making what and the drama started I got rid of them.
I have stuck with what has been the most consistent and reliable products. It's why I am so bummed about JR disappearing. I stick with what continues to work for me.
I am old fashioned. I see all the new fancy stuff with telemetry and extra automated, internal, etc niceties and in my experience a lot of that becomes more things to go wrong and honestly I struggle with the learning curve. So I'll stick with my old school stuff. So long as it keeps working I'll keep flying it.
