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Aztecs

PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 9:03 am
by SeanTK

Re: Aztecs

PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 9:12 am
by Ian Warren
Look like the Aztecs are at war again :unsure:

Re: Aztecs

PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 1:07 pm
by deeknow
Great stuff aye. A bunch of these machines have been operated in NZ, and a local operator Sun Air has a whole fleet of them. Not the most inspiring livery tho :)

Image


see: http://3rdlevelnz.blogspot.co.nz/2013/1 ... unair.html

Re: Aztecs

PostPosted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 1:13 pm
by Ian Warren
Dean, I would not be surprised if it , the AH aircraft was not released with this livery.

Re: Aztecs

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:27 am
by cezeta
Oh Man!! I hate these situations. There sooo any airplanes to do! :(

Re: Aztecs

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 7:06 am
by Ian Warren
:D Don't worry Carlos, join the club and to think some are happy with 2 or 3 ... we both aren't happy without 200 to 300 :D

Re: Aztecs

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:19 am
by cowpatz
deeknow wrote:Great stuff aye. A bunch of these machines have been operated in NZ, and a local operator Sun Air has a whole fleet of them. Not the most inspiring livery tho :)


Well it wasn't/isn't the most inspiring aircraft Deeknow.

Re: Aztecs

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:14 pm
by deeknow
cowpatz wrote:Well it wasn't/isn't the most inspiring aircraft Deeknow.

So what's the appeal CP? They must be reliable? Easy to maintain? Cheap to operate?

Re: Aztecs

PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 2:17 pm
by cowpatz
Cheap and robust and for a long time the only viable 6 seater twin around.
I have always thought of them as ugly.

Re: Aztecs

PostPosted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 7:17 pm
by Splitpin
For what its worth , i have always liked the look ... not pretty i agree , but nice .

Re: Aztecs

PostPosted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 8:28 pm
by deeknow
Yeah there's something I like about 'em too Marty. Possibly coz ya see the Sun Air machines here at Hamilton airport a lot.

Re: Aztecs

PostPosted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 8:30 pm
by SA227
Cheap and robust and for a long time the only viable 6 seater twin around


Standard piper really. Each one is different, hydraulic system only on the left engine unless you had an F model, terrible single engine performance but the engines were indestructable....the list goes on

On the plus side they carried a good payload including ice on those cold wet IMC days.

Just looked through my logbook and ZKDGS was the last aztruk I flew, on 12 October 2000, doing a multi endorsement for a gentlemen who is now, or at least was somewhere in the Air NZ jet fleet.

Re: Aztecs

PostPosted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:11 pm
by Lindstrim