Visitors to Pilatus here at the show (Booth 1597) can take
part in the Pilatus Free Fuel Challenge and enter to win $5,000 in fuel for
their aircraft or car. The company is inviting all operators of corporate
turbine-powered aircraft to visit their exhibit and see how much money they
could save by adding a PC-12 turboprop to their operations, it says. Using the
PC-12 Fuel Calculator, flight department managers enter their current fuel
price, select their current aircraft, and compute savings in fuel costs based
on various price-per-gallon figures. Pilatus says the results will please:
easily more than $100,000 per year relative to traditional light and midsize
business jets. The fuel prize will be awarded at 2 p.m. on Friday.
