Super Petrel - Cost to Own

What does it actually cost to buy and own a Super Petrel? In this short video we break down the Super Petrel Cost of Ownership and let you know exactly what your get for your money. And how much of your money it will take.
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In addition to annual costs, we cover the cost per hour and cost per mile to operate. We also cover key performance stats so you know what you're paying for.
Costs of airplane ownership vary widely from owner to owner. This video takes an average of the various expenses from existing owners and boils them down to simple to digest numbers. Your ownership experiences will be unique.

[@christiansmyth1466]

Your delivery has always been great, but it is somehow improving, or maybe just solidifying. Your sense of humor keeps these things light and entertaining without them turning into anything resembling outright comedy. But they are chock-full of information. Keep up the great work, as always!

[@Felix-bj9et]

Nothing to add here. The mixture between length, details and fun is ideal, really. I love it

[@not-a-raccoon]

WHY DO I GET SO EXCITED WHENEVER THESE DROP?!

[@michaelnichelson3423]

You have a great combination of being both informative and entertaining. Keep it up! Your formula is filling the niche very well.

[@kenaragon7040]

These are incredible airplanes, I know several owners and have flown in them often. Really high build quality and sweet flying airplane.

[@soundman447]

As cool as the A5 is I would choose this everyday

[@BradiKal61]

I love that lower wing that stalls first to prevent a major stall

[@RamblerMan68]

Great presentation! Love the sense of humor. Thanks for sharing and best of luck on the growth of your channel!!

[@jaredj631]

Holy crap this is weird. I just saw one of these flying over Lake Travis near Austin Texas. I think it was taking off for landing! And I was thinking how I wish you would do a video on this plane! Literally no more than two weeks ago this happened! Maybe they’re fairly popular

[@goldendemise3165]

Yesss!!!!!! You finally made a video on amphibious lightsport aircraft

[@CompleteWalkaround]

Enjoy, but this is the second :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHS6hHibl9KCnZY&ab_channel=CompleteWalkaround

[@notravstar]

Love the breakdowns, keep it up!

[@matthewmillar3804]

I just got my mug, bunnyhug (hoodie to the rest of the world), and hat. Very cool! Keep the videos coming!

[@soulcapitalist6204]

Where are hoodies bunnyhugs?

[@greatcanadianmoose3965]

I like that these videos are getting more funny, it's pretty awesome!

[@SithLord2066]

Super Petrel has a higher cruise speed, longer range and more useful load than Icon A5. And the price is cheaper.

[@caseyarends3513]

I just discovered these and have really enjoyed your videos. Would love to see one on the piper tripacer!

[@CompleteWalkaround]

Roger Dodger

[@asquare9316]

Thank you for this, I am working on my Sport Pilot License at the moment and aspire to fly the Super Petrel.

[@johnkakuk]

Great video! I’m also looking at the Progressive Aerodyne SeaRey-would love to see that one covered 😁

[@armedreptile7889]

Would be interesting to see a breakdown on the sea ray

[@Explorerx98]

Keep up the amazing work!

[@ryanvanasse]

mmm I love the little jabs at the A5 in this one

[@jumpshot244]

Hey great vid. Also, thanks for doing the Vision Jet and DA42. Hope you're still planning on the DA42 sequels with the updated engines/maybe a DA62 comparison since they're basically the same plane. If you're looking for a new idea, how about a Tecnam P2006T? Been seeing it in a lot of magazines.

[@gavinhutchens8023]

Great videos! I would like to see an Quad City Challenger 2 cost break down! Or something close!

[@maxcomis698]

Great as always

[@nedrudt21]

Please do the Taylorcraft BC12D next. Love the videos.

[@maxcfi7718]

wow i want one so badly

[@Felix-bj9et]

Great videos as always! I would be very interested in something like a Diamond DA20 or a Tecnam P92, as these are very interesting over here in Europe.

[@rondunlop985]

Good thing I invested in my twenties so I can fly in my fifties. Just the price of fuel these days makes it rough for the average Joe without a trust fund. I may just have to go with minimum liability and self-insure the hull to afford a plane. Still worth it.

[@Kandranos]

You could take this format of video to almost any vehicle, boat, car, truck, etc.

[@jsmalls911]

Please do the seaRey next!!!

[@keithhayden7310]

Great videos!! Would love to see one on the AutoGyro Cavalon Gyroplane. Thanks

[@CompleteWalkaround]

Thanks. I'll get to them gyros eventually. There's a guy in my EAA chapter with a couple of them

[@JP-ue2de]

Your videos are really good 👍🏼, I don’t know if you have a Epic E1000 walk around

[@CompleteWalkaround]

Thanks! You'll have to just watch them all to find out! (I don't, but no harm watching them all 😉)

[@queeny5613]

Awesome

[@salmofisher5232]

must do Comanche 400!

[@br4nd0nh347]

So I'm guessing he has a problem with LSA with parachutes?

[@paulgemperlein626]

I find myself imaging how it would look without the top wing

[@quinnfewston5847]

Maby a c-130 Hercules cost to own?

[@racingwithbigt]

Can you do an ultralight like airbike or kolb? Also maybe a kitfox

[@CompleteWalkaround]

Kitfox is there. Its an older format but the info is the same kzbin.info/www/bejne/apuyp6l6qsh2a5I&ab_channel=CompleteWalkaround

[@mwp1088]

Jokes were on point in this one!

[@gofukyurself5380]

nice

[@rogerhelton458]

Ya’all need to check out the new XP version of the Super Petrel. Anyone here that does not like horsepower? It’s the 914UL on steroids

[@ironburrito5370]

Stearman Please!!

[@clippedwings225]

Question: what is a TBO?

[@CompleteWalkaround]

Hi, That means time before overhaul. How long the engine can go before getting a very expensive overhaul. Its not a hard set number and the tbo is used more to calculate the value of the engine. As it approaches tbo, the value drops to very little. This value drop is the reserve cost in the equation.

[@clippedwings225]

@@CompleteWalkaround Thank you very much! I heard it a lot in these videos and couldn't quite find an answer on google.

[@Beemerboy324]

It's actually pronounced PET-rel...sort of like the British word for gasoline. A Petrel is type of seabird.

[@nedlooby7419]

Pietenpol?

[@sorka7957]

Please Searey!!!!

[@whosaidyoucandance]

Cannot get past the pronunciation of "petrele" haha. Refer to a documentary on the seabird it's named for, "petrl". Potato potaato. Great videos, keep them coming!!

[@steelbite3411]

Well at least it's not an Icon

[@leoclement3801]

If the Icon was priced similarly, the rest would go belly up almost immediately!

[@jacquessmith8653]

You think we are going to buy anything without k owing the cost!

[@CompleteWalkaround]

Are you slow?

[@depilot2035]

First

[@NicksStuff]

A parachute always makes sense on a single engine airplane

[@CompleteWalkaround]

Hi Nick, I disagree. For 3 reasons. First, A parachute would make this plane prohibitively expensive. You don't see Auto-Land and G3000s in small singles for the same reason. Even if you could argue it makes them safer. It doesn't make sense to put them in there. Second, A full air frame parachute doesn't justify flying in areas where emergency landings are impossible. Cirrus has a parachute for mostly for engine outs during IMC or night flying over dark terrain and because of it's poor spin recovery. When flying singles you are supposed to be prepared for an engine out emergency landing. Third, there's no guarantee the parachute will work. Flying a super petrel during daytime VRF and being cognizant of a potential engine out, I would dead stick that plane 10 times out of 10. If you blow the chute and it doesn't open properly you've got no engine and towing a ruined chute. I would rather land engine out and touch down at 30 knots in the water or on land.

[@mluby7828]

@@CompleteWalkaround There's no "jettison deployed chute" lever in case it tangles or something? Of course, that'd add *even* more complexity and cost. For a seaplane, a giant airbag might be better, like that Mars lander had. 😂

[@abates3747]

the top wing is ahead of the bottom wing, top wing absolutely must stall first... all multi-plane airplanes, the forward plane has to stall first, or at the same time, but absolutely can't stall last. Canards for example. The first stalling surface needs to promote happy flight situation of nose heaviness. If a wing behind stalls, then that makes the airplane absurdly tail heavy to the remaining flying surface, and life for the pilot and crew is about to end.

[@CompleteWalkaround]

Nope. But thanks for the random canard info. The two wings have difference angles of incidence and the bottom goes first. Listen to the guy who got this place certified in the US explain it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYm4YoSMhZyNnMU

[@abates3747]

@@CompleteWalkaround , if the rear plane stalls first, the center of lift is now wildly ahead relative to where the CofG is, meaning wildly tail heavy. It's just a fact. Maybe there's some magic in the Petrel that means it stays a flyable-yet-wildly-tail-heavy machine, but the geometry of aerodynamics don't change... maybe in a landing they want a tail heavy airplane to plop and stall even harder.

[@abates3747]

@@CompleteWalkaround , it might be for water handling. The forward plane will get the nose up sooner, and keep it up longer after touchdown... at the expense of stall characteristics.

[@CompleteWalkaround]

@@abates3747 My friend, I think your knowledge of canards may be spilling over into biplanes here. This is taken from the Super Petrel POH, page 3-8 The Super Petrel LS has a design feature that allows the lower wing of the aircraft to stall completely while the upper wing remains flying. Indication of a stall is apparent when lift is lost on the lower wing, and the nose of the aircraft drops. This allows for recovery from the stall while the upper wing, containing the ailerons, continues to provide positive flight and control. Aircraft with an Angle of Attack (AOA) indicator installed will also be notified of a stall when the AOA is absent of green bars and/or the stall warning audio tone is heard through the audio system superpetrelusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Pilots-Operating-Handbook.pdf The top wing is just a few inches forward of the lower. It's a different shape and angle of incidence. Who's to say where the center of lift is on either. Not us clearly. The good folks who designed this plane were nice enough to tell us that the bottom wing stalls first.

[@abates3747]

@@CompleteWalkaround , it's not just canards, but general multi-plane aircraft. lower wing on a beech staggerwing stalls first, upper wing on a Pitts stalls first (and as a cool trick even does it inverted), I'd simply more like to know how a lifting that's behind another lifting surface, when stalled, will drop the nose... even with tricks like different airfoils and angles of attack. Maybe it's just drag and the higher moment of the engine... interesting. Forgive me for saying you were wrong however. Like I said last week, your videos do brighten my day :)