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Post subject: Re: Citation M2 - good entry level jet? Posted: 27 Apr 2018, 09:56 |
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Username Protected wrote: There isn't a huge cost benefit in the CJ4 over the CJ3 for SP owner. And the CJ4 can't be upgraded. I was trying to keep costs in line with a new M2.
Phenom 300 and PC24 even used are a lot more money than a new M2. There are used PC24's in the market?
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Post subject: Re: Citation M2 - good entry level jet? Posted: 27 Apr 2018, 10:09 |
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Username Protected wrote: There are used PC24's in the market? I certainly hope Pilatus has used each one they sell. :-) There are currently 2 PC-24s on the US registry. N124AF, serial #101 N224WA, serial #102 Both are active on Flightaware. So buying a used PC-24 is now theoretically possible. Mike C.
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Post subject: Re: Citation M2 - good entry level jet? Posted: 27 Apr 2018, 10:33 |
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Username Protected wrote: Our Cessna demo pilot blew both our first altitude restriction and the below class B speed limit. We were climbing at 235 KIAS, and 3000 fpm. Mustang don't fly like that... ;) Now it doesn't, but pull the power back on the M2 and it will fly like the Mustang. Problem solved. There ain't nothing you can do the Mustang to make it fly like an M2. Mike C.
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Post subject: Re: Citation M2 - good entry level jet? Posted: 27 Apr 2018, 10:35 |
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Here is a Pic. We were not at GW, and it was cool, but holy cow, that plane can climb. Get in trouble real fast.  Attachment: 1 (4).jpg
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Post subject: Re: Citation M2 - good entry level jet? Posted: 27 Apr 2018, 10:40 |
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Username Protected wrote: As an entry single pilot jet, I would say the M2 is a little bit fast. Things happen really fast and you can get yourself in trouble pretty quickly. A mustang is a better entry level jet and for someone coming out of a piston, the Mustang is probably a better first jet. A little simpler and more forgiving. I think your friend would/should be looking at a year or 2 of mentor pilot work before going out on his own. Forget about the CJ3 or 4 as an entry level jet. The dude that put his family in the lake, would still be flying if he had a right seater and probably still be flying if he was just in less plane.
As said above, the cockpit is a little tight. I am 6'2 but even coming from the PA46 platform, the legroom was less than in my M600. Seats also don't recline, seems built for the hired help and not so much for an owner pilot. Cabin is very nice. M2 a little bit fast? What do you think is a little bit slow? You can fly the M2 at any speed between 100kts and 400kts. With simple position of the throttle you, the pilot, can pick the speed that you are comfortable at. Not a big difference between the Mustang and the M2 in speeds other than at the high end - 340 kts vs. 400kts. Don't push up the throttle until you care comfortable with the speed. Where you get to use the high end speed difference you hardly feel it. All the 500/510/525 Citations fly at about the same speed for approach and landing. Which is typically slower then most twin props. M2 is as good of an entry jet as a Mustang. Cj2 was my entry jet. The dude that put his family in the lake would have had the problem with any new jet he was in. My personal opinion is he went from a G1000 aircraft to a Proline 21 aircraft and didn't know how to use the AP & FMS at a critical time when he needed it. Nothing specifically wrong with him being in a CJ4 other then he didn't get enough transition training.
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Post subject: Re: Citation M2 - good entry level jet? Posted: 27 Apr 2018, 10:46 |
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Username Protected wrote: Here is a Pic. We were not at GW, and it was cool, but holy cow, that plane can climb. Get in trouble real fast.  So you would prefer to get into trouble real slow? If a pilot does not know how to manage his aircraft performance then he needs more training until he can. That climb performance can get you through an icing layer real quickly. Or climb over a weather front. More accidents have happened due to lack of performance then due to too much performance. Example being the Comanche SDL crash.
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Post subject: Re: Citation M2 - good entry level jet? Posted: 27 Apr 2018, 11:00 |
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Username Protected wrote: If a demo pilot blew a speed or altitude, well hey, it was a demo and the customer did it and the demo pilot could not, or chose not to intervene. Cannot risk offending the customer or letting them feel it is too much airplane. All that should be able to be worked out in the sim.
Just hard to make the purchase decision. Overwhelming buyer guilt. And knowing the money could be invested into earning more money and security.
And, where to put the thing! Yeah, you are right. Pilots don't get themselves in trouble when things happen too fast and the pilot gets behind the plane. My bad. The demo pilot was flying, because I was not typed, they would not let me take off. Cessna interpretation of the rules. I would not have blown the altitude, the speed maybe. As far as I know take off power is the take off detent. Are they teaching you can take off at less than take off power? Take off, clean up, heading, altitude restriction, freq change new altitude change, that is all it took for the speed to get away from him and he was likely pretty experienced being a Cessna demo pilot.
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Post subject: Re: Citation M2 - good entry level jet? Posted: 27 Apr 2018, 11:19 |
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Username Protected wrote: Take off, clean up, REDUCE POWER heading, altitude restriction, freq change new altitude change, that is all it took for the speed to get away from him and he was likely pretty experienced being a Cessna demo pilot. Your losing some street cred here! 
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Post subject: Re: Citation M2 - good entry level jet? Posted: 27 Apr 2018, 11:25 |
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Username Protected wrote: Take off, clean up, heading, altitude restriction, freq change new altitude change, that is all it took for the speed to get away from him and he was likely pretty experienced being a Cessna demo pilot. You missed the biggest distraction, the potential customers the demo pilot is trying to impress. The "show off" distraction shows up in several accidents and can be hard to control for a new pilot so excited to be using their new airplane. Mike C.
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Post subject: Re: Citation M2 - good entry level jet? Posted: 27 Apr 2018, 11:37 |
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Username Protected wrote: Ok, I said entry level, maybe I mean more like, "light jet".
Come on guys, a CJ3+ is like twice as much money. Nice plane, but a whole different ballgame in all kinds of ways beyond money. I didn't say CJ3+... I said CJ3
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Post subject: Re: Citation M2 - good entry level jet? Posted: 27 Apr 2018, 12:05 |
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Username Protected wrote: Quote: Buying something that goes fast to soothe the ego is of questionable value, because looking out the window at altitude doing .92 Mach doesn't look that different from .67. Maybe not, but 30 some years ago I was flying with a Captain in a .87 Falcon 10 who was sure upset to be passed by a .9+ 7-2-7.....  Yeah, I used to like to do that in the 727; but even more fun in the 747 at .92 Mach. 
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Post subject: Re: Citation M2 - good entry level jet? Posted: 27 Apr 2018, 12:06 |
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Username Protected wrote: As far as I know take off power is the take off detent. Are they teaching you can take off at less than take off power? Take off, clean up, heading, altitude restriction, freq change new altitude change, that is all it took for the speed to get away from him and he was likely pretty experienced being a Cessna demo pilot. Someday maybe you will learn how to fly a hot rod. TO Power detent is max 10 minutes. When you are light and have the climb rate you want then pull power out of TO, often right after gear up. Set climb power is part of clean up unless you need to get over some obstacles. Can't comment on the Cessna pilot except he would have busted a checkride flying it that way.
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