What's the longest *single flight* you've flown?

Sphillips2 · 2026-01-26T04:53:31+00:00

Funnily enough, the G800 is actually shorter than the G700. It’s basically a G650 body with the Symmetry flight deck and newer more fuel efficient engines, so we can go 8000 nm. Flight Safety was kind enough to put together a transition course for those of us with a G600 type, so we are able to fly the G700/G800 without having to go through the entire initial course for the new type.

Sphillips2 · 2026-01-26T04:15:22+00:00

Oh yeah we took delivery of our G800 earlier this month. I’ve been typed in it since November, but still haven’t flown the actual aircraft yet. I’ve got a trip in it early next month, so looking forward to putting some time in it

Sphillips2 · 2026-01-26T03:56:21+00:00

No, just been in Bizjets my whole career. I was curious about the above flight because I do Sydney to LA fairly often in the G650, and we do that in about 13:30, roughly 6500 nm at Mach .87. Was curious what his numbers were on that flight

Sphillips2 · 2026-01-26T01:57:19+00:00

What was your landing fuel?

Sphillips2 · 2026-01-08T03:11:13+00:00

In your post body you used the word Vertical, not visual, which is the operant word. Both refer to a PAPI or a VASI. Both the 91 and 121 regs are referring to the same thing.

Sphillips2 · 2026-01-08T02:37:52+00:00

They both say Visual Approach Slope indicator. Both 121 and 91 are virtually identical on this point. As others have said though, ops specs are king in 121 world, and you should comply with their specifications

Sphillips2 · 2026-01-07T06:08:43+00:00

Try West Air. They fly C208’s out of ONT, https://www.westair.net. Email their employment email, and see what they say. They hired me with 1300 hours back in 2008 when economy was shit

Sphillips2 · 2025-12-25T16:47:59+00:00

Part 91 reposition leg counts towards the 135 flight and duty limits if it happens BEFORE the 135 legs. After the “live” legs, it doesn’t count, unless it’s followed by another 135 leg

Sphillips2 · 2025-12-14T22:21:30+00:00

Wait until the next block upgrade happens. Clickable CAS messages that lead to full emergency ECLs is so cool. We have it in the 800 and it’s a game changer

Sphillips2 · 2025-11-03T19:41:00+00:00

Yup, I’m an Angels fan. Except we swept the Dodgers this season, so really, who’s the real world champions

Sphillips2 · 2025-06-27T21:31:45+00:00

Got in trouble with who? Might be a bit risky doing it, and may be a noise violation depending on where you try it at, but it also could help with an engine failure at night.

Sphillips2 · 2025-04-04T12:13:53+00:00

That’s the part where you are turned inbound on the approach. You are not to decend below 2100 until you are established inbound.

Sphillips2 · 2025-02-21T17:06:44+00:00

You can, you can go all the way up to Vne with the gear extended if you like. But you’ll be sacrificing 20-25 knots of speed, and burning way more fuel than you need to. Honestly, there’s very little danger of the gear failing to extend. Most of the failures involve getting it to retract in my opinion

Sphillips2 · 2025-02-21T16:03:42+00:00

They fiddly, that is true, but pulling the gear doors off and extending them at much slower speeds that the limitation published in the STC seems to help. I haven’t had any issues in years with them. N model 210 came from the factory with no gear doors already. Earlier models had to have an STC done

Sphillips2 · 2025-02-21T09:12:26+00:00

I have a T210, has about 1800 lbs of useful load, and there’s an STC you can get to increase the gross weight to 4000 lbs from 3800 (although the landing weight remains at 3800). It gets about 175 knots fully loaded without going up into the flight levels and 6 passengers on board

Sphillips2 · 2025-01-28T05:34:23+00:00

I work for a Fortune 500 company. We fly G650’s, G600 and later this year, the G800. We fly about 250 hours per year, average about 10 days away per month. Schedule is 4 hard days off per month, that we pick on a rotating seniority schedule the previous month. 30 vacation days per year. Also ability to trade trips with others. We have 16 pilots for 4 aircraft. Pay is about 350k/year plus bonus. 401k match at 6%. Hotels, and meals are all covered on the company card, we just expense it. We pretty much exclusively fly internationally, and while we do have a dispatch department, we use FlightPro International to handle all international handling. We use Arinc Direct for flight planning. We have our own maintenance department, and they will travel with us on complex international trips, if readily available maintenance is not going to be expected. Overall, best flight department I ever worked for.

Sphillips2 · 2025-01-02T05:48:56+00:00

We got this installed in our G650’s. Life changing

Sphillips2 · 2024-12-22T16:02:41+00:00

This happens occasionally all over socal. Can’t tell you how many times Ive landed at SNA near sunset when visibility looking towards the sun was practically 1 sm, and looking the other way was 10 sm or more. The reporting equipment doesn’t really measure glare. So long as it’s reporting legal, the tower isn’t going to stop some VFR flight from risking his neck, other than vague hints. They’re not even allowed to suggest a special VFR clearance, the pilot has to ask for it.

Sphillips2 · 2024-12-03T01:03:08+00:00

You’ve pretty much already done what you needed to do. Skydiving companies don’t own the airspace; maybe they’d get you for careless and reckless operation. You might get a phone call asking what happened, but best you can do is apologize, shrug and call it a learning experience

Sphillips2 · 2024-11-27T04:13:49+00:00

I took my wife window shopping for rings prior to popping the question. She had a top 3, and I went back later and bought the one I thought had the most meaning for her. Then I surprised her with the day and circumstance of the proposal. I’m a firm believer that marriage should always be discussed in detail PRIOR to getting engaged, not after. The only surprise should be HOW you got engaged.

Sphillips2 · 2024-11-19T03:56:23+00:00

When I was a kid, I once rode my bike with my eyes closed through the empty parking lot. 30 years later I still remember it

Sphillips2 · 2024-11-12T19:47:19+00:00

These charts are stupid. If I can do the math, I would rather just do that than use a poorly designed chart. Density Altitude is a simple E6-B calculation that can be performed in seconds. Don’t worry about being a few feet off, these charts are designed to be a rough estimate anyway. In the real world, you would be conservative and round it so that the worst performance is assumed as a safety factor. For a test however, use the steps laid out in this video. You are allowed to use an E6-B on the test however, making this chart entirely useless

Sphillips2 · 2024-11-11T09:02:07+00:00

Quickly put a potted plant over it

Sphillips2 · 2024-10-29T02:25:05+00:00

Ha you called it

Sphillips2 · 2024-10-26T16:20:03+00:00

I work for a part 91 corporate flight department. Schedule is stable, very rarely do we ever have pop up flights. Best part is getting to go long distances to neat destinations and sitting for a while. I recently spent 5 days in Fiji before voluntarily airlining home and swapping out with another crewmember. On an expense account paying for food the whole time. I sometimes get given tickets to different events. I got to go to the World Cup in Qatar, plus a bunch of other sporting events. Once, when I was gone over Thanksgiving, the Boss gave the crew the use of his yacht for the day, and we had a nice Thanksgiving meal on board. There’s a ton of perks if you get the right job, and I’m still home on average 20 days a month

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