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Old 28th Sep 2022, 11:17
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Originally Posted by what next
In my experience during short flights one has the higest workload. I would rather fly with a second pilot on a 15 minute positioning flight than for two hours in the cruise... But then I have no intention to ever fly a bizjet alone.
Yes I see your point but I don't completely agree. There might be higher "peaks" of workload during a short flight, but the overall total amount of work to do would be less and the risk involved is also less becausre there's fewer things that could go wrong.
For a very short flight I would prepare and brief the arrival and approach on the ground before departing and I would keep things easy for myself: I would keep the speed low as far as practical for instance.

In other words, if I had to chose whether flying SP on a 15 min reposition or on a 4h cross-country, I'd do SP on the former.
I agree on the last point however: also no intention of flying a bizjet SP in any case.

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