Originally Posted by
Ken Scott
Still it’s better to be teaching formation to students on a (relatively) cheap training type rather than letting them have their first go on a frontline ME ac - a £160m A400M behind a £300m Voyager for example.
Now we we just have to persuade L3 to include a formation phase....
The lack of a speed brake on the Phenom, compared to the types mentioned, makes it somewhat of an interesting type to train formation (imho) The king air at least had 2 rotating speed brakes that mean that the anchors can get thrown out by closing the power levers. Not sure how you can manage this easily in the phenom.
As for type specific AAR, I would have thought a high fidelity sim would be the best platform to practice this on. Not sure what formating a biz jet, mindful that experienced pilots have already written one off, brings to the party.