Private Jets? Any advice? Or experience?
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For all the flying I do with regards to small aircraft/private jets I can't think of a time when I'd have not wanted just one pilot - the trips have been sub 4 hours and the pilot highly experienced. The times I've been in a Gulfstream (sub 10 times in the last five years) it's always been two pilots.
Petrus1983 said:
For all the flying I do with regards to small aircraft/private jets I can't think of a time when I'd have not wanted just one pilot - the trips have been sub 4 hours and the pilot highly experienced. The times I've been in a Gulfstream (sub 10 times in the last five years) it's always been two pilots.
I believe anything with a MTOW over 5700kg still requires two pilots doesn't it?Two pilots for me please. I've controlled two flights where one of the pilots was incapacitated. If you can afford a few grand an hour to charter surely the extra few hundred quid for the second pilot is a drop in the ocean?
Petrus1983 said:
I genuinely have no idea - I'm sure someone on here will. I saw that HondaJet went into service today, again with a single pilot.
Didn't know that, I worked one of the test flights last year. If I remember correctly it's a bit quicker than the citation mustang so that's welcome!I worked for a gent who owned a 604 (now a Global)
A/C bought new and paid for/owned outright.
Flew 300 hour a year.
Budget was $120k per month, managed in house. Costs were for (3 perm) crew wages, fuel, hangar, insurance, maint etc.
A/c only ever used by the Principal/family - so really a private jet.
A/C bought new and paid for/owned outright.
Flew 300 hour a year.
Budget was $120k per month, managed in house. Costs were for (3 perm) crew wages, fuel, hangar, insurance, maint etc.
A/c only ever used by the Principal/family - so really a private jet.
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