Letters: August 2000

Light-Light Twins
In your article about light-light twins in the June issue, your chart didn’t contain the most important element: Single-engine climb rate.

You mentioned Piper’s book value of  240 FPM for the Piper Apache. Was that for the Apache 150 ? I know they also built the Piper Apache 160 and a 235 that became the Aztec. What about the other twins, Travel Air, Dutchess, Comanche and Cougar?

Because all the engines of the light twins have 2000-hour TBOs, a single-engine rate-of-climb comparison would be more meaningful to your readers.

Egon Grothe
Brookfield, Wisconsin

You’re right, we should have provided more information on single-engine...

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