Just read a pilot report in Aviation International News mag on the 505. Two pages of largely drivel by one Alexa Paprosky, who is claimed to be a CPL, and not one reference to its cruise speed, fuel burn or climb rate! Useless! And I find this so often with flight tests - what we really want to know is what matters most to us; primarily real world fast cruise speeds, with reference to weight, altitude etc, and the fuel burn at this speed, with a realistic range. And a comment on smoothness can be useful, if very subjective.
And yet time and again in media pilot reports we just get chapter and verse on start up procedures, instrumentation, low speed handling, emergency procedures etc, all of which we just get used to anyway and are unlikely to be purchase decision factors.
As someone who had 2000 happy hours in 206s in my early days I'd like to know what the 505 is really like and here was an opportunity missed!