Which VG Kit to Pick?
You might think that one VG kit is pretty much like another, but that often turns out not to be the case. Of course, if you’re flying an Aztec, Bonanza, Duke, Maule or Cessna 120/140/180/185, you don’t have any choice because there’s only one STC available for your airplane (as you can see in the table above). But if you’re flying a Baron, twin Cessna or Super Cub, you have two or three choices and some comparison shopping is in order. When it came time for me to decide which company to select to put bumps on my T310R, the choice turned out to be pretty easy. Three of the four VG firms offer STC’d kits for twin Cessnas. RAM’s VG kit price ($2,150) is the lowest of the three companies, but none of RAM’s VG kits offer any gross weight increase undoubtedly because RAM’s principal business is selling increased horsepower engines, and a big selling point of those engines is that they offer more useful load. I also discovered that while RAM offers VGs for most of the twin Cessnas, they don’t
