Chapter 1
Fatigue
Harsher than its type
How short were its legs?
Utilization isn’t graded for N915BD: too few of its flights were tracked to count its use fairly, in the full report too. So its free chapter here is Fatigue, which doesn’t depend on catching every flight.
Short legs put more pressurization cycles on the structure for the same time in the air. Worth checking its cycle-based inspection limits before a pre-buy.
Hours per landingLead measure. 1st percentile
Middle 2.4N915BD15.5+0.9 : 1middle GV 2.4 : 1
Short hops94th percentile
Middle 30%N915BD0%70%+54%middle GV 30%
Leg length6th percentile
Middle 664 nmN915BD0 nm2,500 nm+263 nmmiddle GV 664 nm
How its legs split
Share of N915BD’s legs by length, nm, in the twelve months