To the Jet gang.

I was curious if anyone has acceleration times on various engines. If not post your specific engines idle to full rpm times.

My Ram 1000 will go from idle 35K to 128K in 4 seconds.

I would love the numbers for Jet Cats 160 ans AMT 400 and 450 anyone have them. Not looking for web site data actual times measured by you guys.

Thanks

Ian

My P160 will do it in 4 seconds

My P120 will do it in 4 seconds

My old Ram 1000's would do it in 3 seconds.

However, in my experiance (granted it took a lot of experiance to get there) it doesn't matter if you don't mess up on landing.

AT 400 3.5 seconds

Olympus 3.5 seconds but I gotta carry a scuba bottle for start up.....atleast for a little while longer.

These are based on a fast count "1 Mississippi....2 Mississippi etc"

hasta

P-80 6 SECOND

P-120 4 SECOND

AT 450 3.5 seconds AIRSTART

Thanks Guys

I was told that AMT is faster accelerating then many engines on the market.

Recently I watched a video on a Frank Turbine a 70/16 that really looked quick. Does anyone have the information on this one?

Ian

AMTs are not set to any number of seconds... Each engine can be a little different
because it runs a closed loop. I bent the holes on a 280 one time and it
was the fastest thing around. It would stall the compressor for 1/10 sec on the way up.
But as a whole the AMTs are a little faster then the average.
From %30 power to full all AMTs are allmost instant..

From what I have seen Jetcats are getting faster and faster..

Eddie Weeks

Very fast acceleration times do come with some risk, including errosion of the burner can over time....

nony, thats true for some but as you know first hand, some manufacturers turbine engine cans are designed quite differently than others. Some manufacturers can designs indeed actually perform and run substantially cooler while still operating with fast acceleration/deceleration time, if the design of burner can and its combustion/burn pattern are throughly developed tested and optimized this should allow further and safe acceleration increase without additional or any detrimental ware of course... eg- 2.5 sec, idle 33k - max 126k for our TJT-3000 engines.