Rocket Powered Cessna Caravan

Had some matinence done on the Caravan and some fuel was left in the system after a compressor wash. I think cessna should put this afterburner feature on all their new planes, it would deff be a show stopped to see Jet Caravan at the air shows!

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• Caravan
• Rocket
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• Cessna
• Flying

[lanzecki]

Is it normal to start a caravan with the props in feather? Or was the prop pitch lever on full fine, and the prop will come out of feather once the oilpressure / prop govener is upto speed?

[unityfm]

@lanzecki The prop normally does that on start up, as you explained with oil pressure/prop governor. Its interesting to see how it flattens out as you push up the throttle lever. Another interesting fact is that the PT6 engine once fully started is always running at the same constant speed, the difference in power settings is based on the pitch of the prop

[unityfm]

Oh yea, no doubt - seriously wish they would come out with a RG would be really great - but as it is, such a blast to fly!

[P0werwise]

The guy at about 52 seconds in is nuts!

Or brave. Or just used to it.

[OriginalAtomicSheep]

u got over 2 mil from where? direct me to that very same place so i can collect my caravan too.

[pilotblayze]

@jbranco254 the PT actually stands for Pump Turbine..the engine began life as a well pump and as an oil pipeline pump (still is)

they used it for a year continuously (>8000 hours) and they couldnt find anything wrong with it...to illustrate its reliability

[lenoro1]

sorry "unityfm" but thats not true... the ng is the speed of the engine itself (spins separately from the Np) And it idles at 52% at low idle which is for ground ops taxi etc. Put the condition lever to High Idle for takeoff and the Ng jumps up to 65% and changes as required to produce the power. normal flight is around 96% depending on the engine, we had one that ran around 98-99% and a fair bit hotter which reduces the power available at altitude. The Garrets though run a more constant Ng.

[jbranco254]

Any of you rocket scientists know why its called a PT-6.... yeah , the P turbo part fine but 6? Hint, its nt the 6 th version... think curves...

[willypro4000]

try pluging in a GPU on Metro that

is Nuts

[videoproducer100]

Cool looking effect! I agree that would be a neat option to have on the plane. Another interesting and kinda bad thing is the plane in the background (Antonov PZ-TSV) crashed in 2010. All passengers died in the accident.

[mikeramsey13]

Ah the Famous PT-6 turbine got to love it.

[JoblessDerrick]

where was this video taken..the an-24/28 in the back looks familiar

[glennie5000]

plz tell me how expensive is one of these