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Guys,

Who here is running a P300RX?? Any reports? Good or bad??

Interested in noise too. Someone said they were crazy loud. Is that true?

All comparisons would be against a 200SX as these are the 2 turbines I'm considering for my Tomahawk Hawk 100.

Rgds,
Mark

RE: Jetcat P300RX??

Mark, if I remember correctly, Kasper has one and uses it (Carbon-Customs)

RE: Jetcat P300RX??

Kaspers videos

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u42QrTqmYwg[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FksgoMLLHUM[/youtube]

RE: Jetcat P300RX??

How are you going to carry enough fuel for a p300 when I talked with Goetz he said the tank is 5.2 liter, hence they recommend a 180-200N turbine.

I saw the tomahawk mk 66 fly in ob a behotec 180 Gold plenty of power, 42lbs dry

RE: Jetcat P300RX??

Disco

300 will not be an issue. Mine will be far from standard and 7L won't be a problem if needed.

Just need to get some facts first though.

Rgds
Mark

RE: Jetcat P300RX??

I'm never ever gonna stick a "new" engine in one of my planes! I wait until the engine has been on the market for a year or so before sticking it in any of my planes ;)
Kasper has had his share of flameouts on the P300!

RE: Jetcat P300RX??

Quote:

ORIGINAL: Carsten Groen

I'm never ever gonna stick a ''new'' engine in one of my planes! I wait until the engine has been on the market for a year or so before sticking it in any of my planes ;)
Kasper has had his share of flameouts on the P300!

Then you could consider the B300F. Super reliable, extremely fuel efficient ( best tfsc of all engines categories on the market ) and Marc Scully would give you a great support in the UK.
Here is a description of the product with some internals pictures:
http://www.ultimate-jets.net/collect...ducts/b-300-uf

RE: Jetcat P300RX??

Sorry Oli,
I know that the BF engines probably are great etc, but I'm never gonna buy engines (or other high-priced items that can need regular service etc) from small companies. I have seen way too many "single" man companies go down the drain that I want to put my hard earned money into them [:o]
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure they make great engines and so on, but companies like that tend to rely on only 1 or maybe 2 persons, these I try to stear away from.
Just my personal opinion :D

A "good" example is SimJet here in Denmark, they were once great technically, with a very few key person(s), now they are gone....

RE: Jetcat P300RX??

Think its luck of the draw either get personal attention or join the queue and be a number some prefer the latter.

RE: Jetcat P300RX??

Quote:

ORIGINAL: Carsten Groen

Sorry Oli,
I know that the BF engines probably are great etc, but I'm never gonna buy engines (or other high-priced items that can need regular service etc) from small companies. I have seen way too many ''single'' man companies go down the drain that I want to put my hard earned money into them [:o]
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure they make great engines and so on, but companies like that tend to rely on only 1 or maybe 2 persons, these I try to stear away from.
Just my personal opinion :D

A ''good'' example is SimJet here in Denmark, they were once great technically, with a very few key person(s), now they are gone....

BF-Turbines is Thomas Berktold and Christian Frey. They have now 5 employees dedicated to BF products. Thomas is the owner of Behotec with 20 employees. They are actually as big as Jetcat ( they don't only do turbines but other mechanical stuffs as Jetcat do ).
All together BF draws manpower and expertise of nearly 30 persons. I am not really sure that we can talk about a single man company here. BTW BF is selling about 30 engines per month to the UAV industry. This is now 75% of their market.