Chapter 1
Fatigue
Harsher than its type
How short were its legs?
Utilization isn’t graded for PS-PIL: 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. 12th percentile
Middle 1.2PS-PIL0.52.5+0.9 : 1middle PC-24 1.2 : 1
Short hops95th percentile
Middle 48%PS-PIL0%100%+85%middle PC-24 48%
Leg length20th percentile
Middle 323 nmPS-PIL100 nm900 nm+218 nmmiddle PC-24 323 nm