I am constantly amazed and disgusted at the amount of inaccurate information about aircraft performance, and range is always the biggest issue.

What is the real world range of your Citation, Pilatus, TBM, Beechjet, Learjet, or King Air?

Describe your world - winds, ISA, VFR, IFR, distance to alternates?

I'm thinking "day in and day out" range, in other words I can fly Brand X 1200nm with reserves most of the time.

Example: The Premier IA is a 900 - 1000nm airplane day in and out, maybe 1100 on a good day with light load.

I recently had a client tell me he wanted a Premier IA, my response was wait, you said you didn't want a Beechjet because of range, so why the Premier?

He says the Premier has 1680nm range... friggin' Wikipedia.

1200 nm; 1500 nm to good VFR destination; less to low IFR with far alternate; into a 30kt headwind.

What a great airplane. I have a client who wants a Bravo, we talked to Cessna yesterday about CJ2+, I'd like to see him move up, a much better investment.

VFR destination and PD climb/descent 2220 nm if restricted to FL280. That is the book number and it is closer to real world than any model I've seen to date.

I have generally considered the aircraft I was flying by the hour vs. nm. Too many variables. A standard top it off and fly, I can do 3:45 without thinking, roughly 1000nm. If I want that next 30/45 minutes, I have to do a little work.

Solitaire appears to be 1400nm in no wind assuming unrestricted climbs and descents.

Agree this simplifies life. Some days it makes the brochure look honest, some not so much.

Your customer and Mike C. Read it on the internet how could it be WRONG? :

Versus heard it word of mouth from a 3rd party... How could that possibly go wrong?

Written - even on the internet - is typically of better quality than word of mouth. Especially if people write down the assumptions and conditions.

You know Wikipedia is editable/correctable, right?

The Phenom 100 is a 900-1100nm airplane with 600lb reserves.

My Aero Commander can go 5.5hrs and have a hours worth of fuel on arrival.

Typical cruise speed is 300kts so say 1650nm range.

Not quite sure what altitude people are using to figure their reserve fuel time?

I am using low altitude fuel burn.

I am very conservative and normally like a 5 hour leg (1500nm) and 1.5 Hr fuel remaining.

Maybe that will change with time.

980 Commander is one of the best airplanes ever built!!!