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I’ve got a few 1000 hours power line in them. Including wire pulling. They lift well until higher DA’s, fast, plenty of room in the back for cargo stuff but not really a passenger machine.
MD doesn’t support them much so when small but important items go wrong it’s a pain to find parts.
The engine is a basic C-47 but with a different gearbox and FADAC/MCU so it’s not B-407 direct change. I personally like the NOTAR but some don’t. The CWA from right quartering is larger than typical MD 500/530’s but the winds really got to be blasting.
Lastly, the CBP really wanted A-stars back then and did everything they could to ‘prove’ the 600 unworthy, the myth that the machine will nose tuck and spin/roll is 100% MYTH!!!
I have flown the very machine seen in the famous 180 hard landing after repair. Watch the video, the auto was in trouble before even turning and never got better. The RPM is running away, the sink rate was way too high and way too steep.