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GV Classic 885 mod
I don't know about that, the issue becomes FL390 West bound. Europe to the west coast in a G5 on a warm day or anywhere in a G4 with a full load fuel would require you to make 430000 at coast out I admit not a game stopper for a G5 But for most other corporate jets it's going to be a big deal... -
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GV Classic 885 mod
I am getting the quote now. You can keep your old school FMS's and still do the mod or you can upgrade them at an additional expense. We are also looking into the cockpit LED mod. For our particular operation it pays to do the upgrades, We fly 300 hours a year(lots of sitting around). We... -
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GV Classic 885 mod
It's actually a cost effective alternate to a G550. Our 5 has less then 3000 hours on it, we looked into replacing it with a G550 with all the latest mods, power by the hour for the engines and apu and we can't do it for anywhere near the one million dollars we are budgeting to upgrade the... -
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GV Classic 885 mod
We are looking into updating our cockpit with the new Honeywell 885 package that Gulfstream is offering. I am looking for anyone who has done this modification. -
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Any Known Upcoming G650 Operators? Where do I send my app????
I just had a buddy look into it. He is a career contract guy, with a very good 550 customer, who is getting a 2014 650. FSI SAV is quoting him $90k. With the purchase of a new 650, Gulfstream is giving the new customer 3 pilot slots and 2 maintenance slots. The operator only needs one... -
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F2TH performance
I have around 1000 hours in a classic 2000 and it's been a few years but here it goes. For our operation it was a greater 48 domestic aircraft only. It held 12000 pounds of fuel but the problem was the low fuel lights came at around 1000 pounds per side leaving you 10000 pounds. This became an... -
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G-4 versus the newer G's
With G4's the easiest way to differentiate what type aircraft that you are looking at is the main wheel and tire assemblies. Classic G4's have wheels that have large holes very similar to a G3. G4SP's and G4's with ASC 190 (increased weight) have main wheels with a larger number or smaller... -
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G-4 versus the newer G's
From the left side you really need to be looking at the distance from the cockpit window to the main entrance door. The Gv's is further aft. On the right side most 550's have a 7th main cabin window. The APU exhaust area is different, the shroud is centered. The outflow valve behind the FO's... -
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Finding a contract pilot
Our policy is: All vacation is requested on Jan 1. At that point it is evenly distributed based upon requests. Ex, Last year you had July 4th, so someone else gets it this year( if requested). Last year you had first choice this year another guy goes first. All requested vacation and personal... -
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Part 135 50% rule
Not being familiar with Part 135 flying can someone please explain what happens if the owner charters out less then 50%. -
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Make the AA hop next year?
Its a crap shoot at the very least. I was hired 6 months after aa73 (8/2000) and my number gets me a reserve line on the MD80 out of EWR, 6am weekend mop up guy to Chicago 14 times a month, no thanks. I made the jump back to corporate in 2003 and have been lucky ever since. The thought of going... -
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What's the latest on the G650?
I spoke with someone at SAV yesterday and they told me that they did not have one customer back out of a 650 slot and that other OEM's are stepping up and providing support to the families. Nice to see -
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NBAA SMS Class
Here's the deal with the SMS: It needs to be IBAC certified. The issue is the FAA has decided not to get involved with the approval process so you have no one to turn to with in the FAA for guidance. This only becomes an issue IF you fly internationally. If your flying is domestic only then you... -
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Owning vs Fractional??
The question is so asinine that I thought that it was rhetorical, that's why I didn't respond to it. Sure corporate operators have fixed costs and variable costs too, the difference is we pay them directly to the vendor without a middle mans mark up. -
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Owning vs Fractional??
We don't purposely fly slow or mark up catering yada yada...... Whats a 1/4 share owner to do when NetJets says you owe us $XX for your sat phone time? But I thought the phone was XX a minute? Too bad -
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Owning vs Fractional??
http://www.cnbc.com/id/41877271/page/3/ Yesterday's Warren Buffetr transcript on Squawk Box: I give Joe Kernan credit for asking this, if you watch the clip live you can see that it visably bothered Buffet to have someone come out publicly and say that Netjet was "anti-American"... -
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Owning vs Fractional??
I think Bernie Madoff was the first one to come up with that Ponzi scheme called Netjets. Woops that's right a former Goldman executive thought it up. Let's see we get the aircraft for $20 million and sell a 1/4 share for $7 million each, then charge a monthly fee on top of that. Now I wonder... -
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jpm chase
They were private about 20 years ago when they were Chase Manhattan. Then they went to Wayfarer, then onto Jet. JP Morgan was EJM until they were purchased by Chase. They went in house about 3 years ago when Jamie Dimon became CEO , all the pilots came over from Jet (and so did the pay scale). -