C check prices on similar model

[maumausi]

I'm playing in dawn of new milleniuum and just had a heart attack as a BAC 1-11 300 cost 956K for a C check! I have an A300 which is only 600K and also a BAC 1-11 475 which is 445K.

Is the number for the -300 correct? It seems out of line with the other prices, I figured the C price check would vary by the size of the airframe. I wouldn't think it would vary by the age of the aircraft as it's an annual repetitive thing so the work is the same every year..

Any insight on the cost model or whether this is a boob in a database somewhere would be appreciated! I'm going to have be a lot more careful what airframes I choose from now on..

Simon

[Sami]

It does not depend on the model alone; but aircraft age etc. also affect it.

[Sigma]

By the Dawn of the New Millennium game, a BAC 1-11-300 has gotta be approaching north of 20 years old and is likely in deplorable shape.  That's why it costs so much to maintain -- not because the check itself costs more (you're still checking the identical things), but because you're finding more wrong with it when you do.

By comparison, in the Jet Age game where such planes are new, the exact same plane only costs about $100K to C-Check.

There isn't a huge variance in the cost to maintain planes that have similar orientations (except for the Russian stuff).  So even in the JA game, an A300 only costs about 5% more to do a C-Check on than a BAC.  You've still got the 2 engines, still have all the same wing and control surfaces.  Effectively all that's different is a bigger tube in the middle.  A 747 though costs twice what a BAC does.