CJ4 is still in production, and appears it will be for some time in the future as the Gen 3 comes to market. Encore is not. Both are fine aircraft. Encore advantage is reverse. The CJ4 has excellent brakes, but nothing is good on ice where reverse would be a welcome addition.

CJ4 has a more desirable and redundant electrical system and with the alternators that power the elec windshields, which can keep a lot of systems normal with both gens off. The spoilers on the CJ4 are infinitely adjustable from retracted to full deployment. The Encore spoilers are retracted or fully deployed with no intermediate adjustability.

The CJ4 is a joy to fly single pilot with the 4 screen proline 21. The CJ4 will cost more because it’s newer and still relevant and still in production. The Encore will do most of what the CJ4 will do for 60-70% of the capital outlay, and stop better on contamination.

I’m biased having flown the CJ4 now over 600 hrs.

Encore (and all 560s) has a primary and an emergency bus, so it has redundancy in electrical systems. Critical systems can be powered from two generators, one battery, via two buses.

Mike C.

These arguments will go on forever

The one side justifies why the extra cost is worth it, the other saying it’s not worth it. They are both right.

I am looking at 560’s and wanted to know more about the Encore which is what brought me to this thread.

But I am in no way considering a CJ4. I can’t imagine there are many people that are going back and forth between these two aircraft.

The CJ4 is more than double the Encore. The CJ4 is new and current, the Encore is no longer made and older.

If you are reading this thread and can afford and justify a CJ4 then you should buy one. Haha

Mike