Dear Santa, I want one of these!
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What puzzles me about these aircraft and their wealthy buyers is the level of qualification and maintenance of said licences required. What quals do you need to fly one single pilot? Presumably their usp is 'high and fast', don't you have to be highly qualified for that, or am I mistaken?
IMHO VLJ's will not work for owner/pilots in Europe. RVSM doesn't just involve aircraft certification. The pilot and organisation operating the aircraft do too. The reg's are drawn so that unless you have the support of a flight dep't it is just not going to happen.
In any case FL290 and above is chocca with Nigel, Paddy and EZ so slot times and delay all round.
IO540 is right. Sub FL290 is the way to go. A SET cruising 340kt's for over 1200NM at F250 with six full size people and luggage is the way ahead. Epic Dynasty gets my vote, and deposit if Santa really does exist!!
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Last I heard of RVSM (beware: this is 3rd hand info) it cost £300k on a TBM700. This will have a major impact on a "$1M" jet. However, I am not aware of any crew certification requirement (N-reg).
OVC002 - shall we go halves on the Epic?
I wonder if it can work off 800m grass. It ought to be able to; a TBM can do so easily. And, this wouldn't be just any old grass. No other users.
The problem is that so many exciting projects have failed recently. Anybody can design a great plane, with the right software. The scrapped Grob 140 had great potential: an IFR 4-seat unpressurised tourer with 1200nm range and 250kt at 25k - that translates to a great mission capability since ~ 95% of the time you are VMC at < 15k. The Epic might yet fail. Cirrus will probably pull it off because they will bet the whole shop on it and they have the cash flow from SR2x sales.
OVC002 - shall we go halves on the Epic?
I wonder if it can work off 800m grass. It ought to be able to; a TBM can do so easily. And, this wouldn't be just any old grass. No other users.
The problem is that so many exciting projects have failed recently. Anybody can design a great plane, with the right software. The scrapped Grob 140 had great potential: an IFR 4-seat unpressurised tourer with 1200nm range and 250kt at 25k - that translates to a great mission capability since ~ 95% of the time you are VMC at < 15k. The Epic might yet fail. Cirrus will probably pull it off because they will bet the whole shop on it and they have the cash flow from SR2x sales.
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A 250lb Santa (which seem ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015lbs of force, instantaneously crushing bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo!!
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Havn't you forgotten that S Claus' sleigh is also a time machine and that distortion of the space/time continuum is quite routine?
Re. the-jet, travel in the low/mid-20s seems favourable - or at FL180/190 to avoid Class C. Even if not the most efficient levels, such levels are pretty free of people-tubes.
Re. the-jet, travel in the low/mid-20s seems favourable - or at FL180/190 to avoid Class C. Even if not the most efficient levels, such levels are pretty free of people-tubes.
