Red.Jimbo

With a range of 2,625 nautical miles, it may also be capable of flying to Hawaii from the US mainland. That is not possible for most of the light jets in its class.

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FlyerDon

Five hour range and FL470 with a single pilot. That’s crazy.

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pilotmww

As long as everything works. Lose an engine or pressurization failure and your going swimming. One of those things I have learned about open ocean flying. My company just got ops spec approval for Hawaii, but the smallest plane we can use is the Challengers we have on certificate. The smaller planes don’t carry enough fuel for contingencies even though they carry enough fuel to make it in normal ops.

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Skypark

Comm has an option that can recognize your callsign and automatically respond with “The party you are calling is in the lav right now, but will be notified to call you upon return.”

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pilotmww

My longest flight in the plane I fly now is 5:45 hr. I can say I have never done to walk of shame to the on board Lav. Don’t waste much time once blocked into the FBO ramp!

rkphillipsjr

It would be interesting to see what the single engine out performance will be, but the Williams engines are pretty darned reliable.

rkphillipsjr

I wondered what they would use for power; I worked on the GE/Honda HF120 project, and it hasn’t a bunch of margin for greater thrust.
Given what it costs to certify an engine, I see how Williams is a great choice.