Jason kindly invited me for a day trip to Zurich where he was going for business, in his new business jet
The engines, front and back
The landing gear looks really sturdy
Nice LED wingtip strobes
There is a lot of luggage space, in two compartments: front and rear
The cockpit is really nicely laid out and everything looks well made – quite unlike piston aircraft
Backup instruments
Takeoff – very smooth. Apologies for being slightly out of focus
Isle of Wight from FL380
Somewhere over Europe
Approaching Zurich
Final approach
Taxiing to the handling company
Some pics from Zurich… I went for a walkabout
Back at the airport
Garmin’s SafeTaxi is absolutely brilliant, and as soon as Garmin Pilot / Android can be obtained in Europe I will get this
FL400. The OAT was too warm for an efficient cruise there so the rest was flown at FL380
The radar display. It shows the UK coastline quite well, too
On the ILS at Oxford, in murky weather
An impressive dark sky (the jet shown is not Jason’s)
It’s a great machine for business travel, and Jason is really sharp flying it… pretty obviously he has tons of currency.
However this trip did underline the utility of an airport like Oxford which opens early and closes late, without which same-day trips to Europe would not be possible.
Nice pictures, @Peter. What do you use to take them?
On a side note, you should have called for a drink 
Samsung S7 phone. It’s not too bad – arguably the best camera phone in current production, though the camera is not as good as the one on my old Nokia 808. Over-saturated, but most people like that 
Yes I should have thought of making a contact down there…
Very nice. Lucky you !
Great trip!
you should have called for a drink
who says he didn’t?
Looks like quite a hard landing Jason. While I guess you’re not supposed to flare it like an SEP, this looks too rough for my taste.
boscomantico wrote:
Looks like quite a hard landing Jason. While I guess you’re not supposed to flare it like an SEP, this looks too rough for my taste.
Perfectly normal. “Wer abfängt ist feige” (only cowards flare) we used to say in my gliding days This Mustang doesn’t have thrust reversers and Zürich expects small aircraft (which includes everything up to B737 and A320…) to take the first or second taxiway. The runway has a pronounced downslope and if you want to make that exit, you have to fly it on. “My” Citation Encore can be flared a tiny little bit in Zürich, but it has the luxury of reverse thrust. I am not sure about part 23 certification requirements but our part 25 aircraft can absorb up to 1.8g on a landing with maximum landing mass. At typical landing speeds this equals something like 700 ft/min. The landing shown in Peter’s video was less than half of that.
How do you know? It looks more like there was very little reduction in sink speed. I see a tiny bit of a flare about one second before touchdown. Maybe that did the trick.
boscomantico wrote:
How do you know?
From experience (I have something like 2500 landings in similar aircraft on my back). Over the threshold the ground speed is maybe 90kt, so he will already be descending at less than 500ft/min on a normal 3 degree glideslope. A little flare combined with the downslope of the runway will reduce this to 300ft/min which is what we see in that video.
