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If your mindset is the latter (I'm getting an experimental) rather than the former (I'm getting a really cheap business jet), you're going to have a lot of fun. If your mindset is the former, you are going to be very disappointed that your 80% discounted jet doesn't live up to your expectations.
Hmm, well the problem is that it *is* certificated as a twin engine jet. So that means mandatory inspections and so on.
Not as much leeway in how it is operated, vs. experimental-A.B. or even as an L39.
So, it is a glorious chariot until something important breaks. Then it is a $400,000 monument to money I used to have.
If the market would support it, an STC for a G2000/G3000 complete retrofit would be awesome. Probably cost more than the aircraft. But it would be a great ride if it could be updated and the airframe fully supported.
Too bad there are all these variants of the Eclipse that fragment the market and I can't honestly figure out which ones are certified to do what, FIKI, IFR, version 1, 2, 3, 1.1, 2.1, 1.23 what avionics or what is what. It's like a ball of string. The engines seem like the most solid thing about them.
But you're right, it isn't a business jet. Not even a personal going-somewhere airplane. It's a toy and a dispose-a-jet.
A business jet needs solid support, AOG network, parts chain ready to supply stuff on demand, predictable cost and uptime.
A personal going-somewhere plane is more tolerant of delay, but not end of the road looming in the head lights.
