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Diamondpilot · Apr 18, 2012

DrRick said:
i live in angelo, and My family printed all the flight manuals for the mu-2 . I remember they were translating a lot of the pages from japanese for some reason. This was in the early 70' i think. Guys at the plant said they were not friendly if an engine went down. small world indeed.

No airplane is friendly if a engine goes down. The MU 2 has different flying characteristics than most other airplanes and a lack of training was a major factor in early accidents. It was marketed as a replacement for the Piper Navajo and some other piston powered planes that were much simpler to fly and the sales people did a injustice by convincing people they were simple to fly like the smaller stuff they were stepping up from.

The MU 2 was originally designed and built by Mitsubishi hence the translation from Japaneses. It had a bad safety record early on but now is the safest turbo prop twin flying.

Chris

pilot-werx · Apr 18, 2012

If are ever looking for some flying fun, I have a MKI DHC-2 Beaver with a PT6-34 hanging off the front. It is part float plane and part helicopter.... I just ordered a grand caravan with the texas turbine conversion and that should be equally fun.... Look me up if you are ever in the northeast...

Diamondpilot · Apr 18, 2012

pilot-werx said:
If are ever looking for some flying fun, I have a MKI DHC-2 Beaver with a PT6-34 hanging off the front. It is part float plane and part helicopter.... I just ordered a grand caravan with the texas turbine conversion and that should be equally fun.... Look me up if you are ever in the northeast...

I have never flown a Beaver but have 1900 hours in a Grand Caravan flying for FedEx in the mid 90's and then I got about 800 hours flying a PC-12 for a private company in the late 90's That Pilatus PC-12 is still my favorite machine of the 50 or so make and models I have flown.

Enjoy your Caravan. I have some icing stories running around in that thing between Des Moins Iowa, Waterloo Iowa, and Indianapolis Indiana for 2 1/2 years.

Chris