Originally Posted by
hans brinker
Only flew the 400 in the SIM, and just 20 minutes. Definitely a lot more powerful and fast... We normally cruises the 50 around 14k' right at VMO (got to scissor the barber pole) of around 225IAS. D8/300 would do 245IAS up to 18k' so definitely faster. Read my reply to Heros for some F50 flight characteristics. Loved the plane, technically perfect, aerodynamically not so much...
I was referring to TAS, not IAS.
But yeah if only the F50 was more sleeker in terms of fuselage. With those powerful engines (PW125B) it could probably cruise at 300+ knots TAS.