Swiss Ponder Global 7500's Limitations

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Red-faced Swiss officials are considering how best to deploy their recently-acquired Bombardier Global 7500 after discovering it literally won't fit the facilities at the airport in the capital city of Bern. According to luxurylaunches.com, the SwissAir Force took delivery of the new executive transport in December to great fanfare, citing its efficiency and utility. A main selling point for $117 million jet was its extreme range of about 7700 nautical miles allowing top Swiss officials to jet in equally extreme luxury non stop to any point on earth--but not from Bern.

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Lets hope the “top Swiss government officials” have their railcards ready and plan their emergencies to travel before the rails shut for the night…
Reminds me of France ordering new trains too wide for platforms at many stations outside Paris, took two years and boocoo bucks (as they don’t say) to move the platform edging stones.
And South Africa bought trains from Spain, which when they arrived, were too tall for the nation’s railways.
That is the trouble with some government procurement, glossy brochures read by people who do not look at the technical annexes or go out of the office with tape measures.

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Oops… guess they should have done their performance analysis, capabilities, and dimension studies a couple of years about when the jet was under development. No chocolate for those in charge.

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They’ll add 2000’ of runway and expand the hangar.as part of an “airport improvement plan”. No need to compromise luxury when “efficiency and utility.” are their goals.

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Yes, Art, and then they’ll be able to attend climate conferences in style.

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Problem is not thinking thoroughly, not checking facts - spending time on flash.

Seattle WA goofed gap at side of transit train, I forget what they did in the short term besides importing Mind The Gap doormats from England. :wink:

Earlier Victoria BC fussed over choice of design to replace its ‘iconic’ blue bridge over the Inner Harbour, chose fancy architect from UK. But:

  • did not do proper cost estimating
  • architects cutesy hinge design for new tilting bridge could not be made
  • fabrication was outsourced to CC to save money, contractor there had great difficulty with the precision needed to make the hinge and mechanism
  • then people wanted to put blue lights in the water under the white bridge: No said the feds, fish migrate through that water.
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Probably should have looked at 8X.

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Just like Share the “Deep Internal Conflict” of the Green Aussie Billionaire who Just Bought a Private Jet – Watts Up With That?.

And be home with their family sooner.

‘tough job but someone has to do it’ is my paraphrasing of David Suzuki’s excuse.

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The airplane needs to be sold and the loss be paid for out-of-pocket by each “official” who authorized the purchase. Then, each “official” needs to be fired.

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The Swiss AF should have known of these issues before the PA was signed. Having been involved in demo work, we’ve taken planes to prospects just to test ramps and fit into their existing hangar. Performance planners will do customized flight plans including take-off planning to ensure the customer knows the operational limits and capabilities. I’ve done hundreds of demos and this should not have happened.

Like any plane, it has limits but the G7500 will depart Bern and go a very long ways—certainly trans-Atlantic, likely to LAX. One did Zurich-Honolulu.

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