Chapter 1
Fatigue
Harsher than its type
How short were its legs?
Utilization isn’t graded for TC-REC: 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. 16th percentile
Middle 2TC-REC14+1.5 : 1middle GIV 2.0 : 1
Short hops90th percentile
Middle 33%TC-REC0%70%+51%middle GIV 33%
Leg length10th percentile
Middle 580 nmTC-REC0 nm1,500 nm+299 nmmiddle GIV 580 nm
How its legs split
Share of TC-REC’s legs by length, nm, in the twelve months