Inside The $8 Million Piaggio P180 Avanti Evo Plane
0:00 - Intro
The Piaggio P180 Avanti Evo blends the very best of Italian style and performance: with greater range, faster climb, a lower noise footprint, added safety systems, and a more luxurious cabin, Avanti EVO is yet another step forward. The third-generation aircraft offers a maximum speed of 402 knots, making it one of the world’s fastest multi-utility turboprops. Here is everything you need to know about the Piaggio P180 Avanti Evo.
0:38 - Cabin
Access to the cabin is straightforward. At first glimpse, the cabin interior is impressive, with a two-place bench seat opposite the door, a single sideways-facing seat on the same side as the door, and four club-arranged seats leading to a full-privacy toilet. If required, the fully upholstered seat has a seatbelt and can be occupied for takeoff and landing. The aircraft can accommodate a maximum of eight passengers and two crew with enough room to work and relax, and features a galley and an enclosed lavatory with a belted potty in typical configurations.
Cabin dimensions are great and more in line with a midsize jet: the spacious stand-up cabin is 5ft 9in or 1.75 meters high, 6ft 1in or 1.85 meters wide, and 15ft or 4.55 meters long, and once strapped into one of the roomy leather seats, space abounds.
The luxurious cabin is also redesigned with two separate rows of rotatable leather seats, stylish use of mirrors, six good-sized windows on either side, and use of light colors, which ensure the cabin has a roomy feel. It is equipped with broadband and satellite connectivity, transforming it into a flying office. Enhanced air-conditioning system and lightning also contribute greatly to passenger comfort. The Avanti Evo has an external baggage area that has acceptable dimensions but is not pressurized.
Avantis are certified to fly as high as FL 410 and maintain a low cabin altitude of 6,600 feet or 2,000 meters at that level. During the flight, the cabin is conversationally quiet since the propellers are way behind the cabin. On the ground, however, the Avanti Evo’s noise footprint is on the high scale, which is typical of pusher designs.
3:00 - Cockpit
The cockpit is comfortable. The seats can be raised or lowered with a lever outboard to provide a view that should just about look down onto the top of the glare shield. The cockpit is equipped with a Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 avionics suite with a tablet-based electronic flight bag. It also includes twin control panels, three large adaptive flight displays, a convenient cursor control panel, an integrated avionics processor system, four data concentrator units, a state-of-the-art weather radar, Traffic Collision Avoidance System, as well as terrain awareness and warning system.
4:00 - New Design and Aerodynamic Features
The airframe of the Avanti EVO has been improved by introducing the three-lifting surface design that is characterized by small front wings, inverted central wings, and the tail’s flat surface elevation.
4:42 - Engine and Performance
The Avanti Evo is powered by two Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-66B Engines with a TBO of 4,100 hours and 850 shaft horsepower each, and two 85in-diameter, five-blade scimitar propellers developed by Hartzell. This combination is able to push the Avanti Evo to a maximum cruise speed of 402 knots and up to a maximum cruising altitude of 41,000 feet or 12.5 kilometers, with an average hourly fuel burn of 80 gallons or 303 liters per hour.
The Avanti EVO series received European Aviation Safety Agency certification for the auxiliary fuel tank in June 2014. The addition of an auxiliary tank increases the aircraft’s fuel capacity from 2,826 lbs to 3,226 lbs and the maximum range by 17%, and enables the aircraft to make transcontinental journeys and US coast-to-coast flights with just a single fuelling stop.
The Avanti Evo has a maximum range of 1,490 nautical miles, which is 1,715 miles or 2,760 kilometers when in the standard configuration, and 1,770 nautical miles for the increased range configuration, which is 2,040 miles or 3,280 kilometers. The Avanti Evo can take off in 3,190 feet or 970 meters, has a maximum rate of climb of 2,770 feet per minute, and a landing distance of 3,280 feet or 1,000 meters, all while maintaining a maximum net payload of 1,750 lbs or 794 kilograms.
7:34 - Purchase Cost
The base price for a Piaggio Avanti Evo is $7.7 million.
7:40 - Operating Cost
While the total fixed cost is roughly $300,000 per year, the average hourly operating cost is estimated at $2,000.
7:50 - Outro
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