CitationII and King airs

[icefr8dawg]

I wonder how much less pollution the engines put out when doing the checks vs. our two hours of APU usage. My car is coated with black apu and engine dust after a week at Teterboro. I don't bother washing it anymore before a trip.

 

[cw4chuck]

Back "in the day" when I taught in the military Citation school, I would sometimes crank engines and taxi away from the FBO before turning avionics and STBY "on". But only within the non-controlled area, and then stop and wait the 3 minutes for everything to spool up. It's the same now, with the Pro Line 21 in the new Encore. I'm sure it drives some crazy, but what are you gonna do?

 

[f-dawg]

With the Proline 21 and no gpu you have to program after start. The avionics use way too much juice to just sit there pushing buttons without a generator on line. Also, when you turn off the avionics for start all of the V-speeds get dumped.

 

[NCherches]

I fly a Bravo (Fancy Citation II) and if you use the FlightSafety Checklist like a lot of guys do the "BEFORE TAXI" Checklist has 23 Items on it!

Most "good" pilots have redesigned their own checklist... My "BEFORE TAXI" checklist has 7 Items. This makes my "TAXI" checklist a little longer but its an easy plane to handle and most taxi's are at least 3 minutes leaving plenty of time to complete these checks on the roll prior to reaching the runway.

I too program the FMS and load Freq's etc prior to startup.

I can't stand being behind a JET at the end of the runway that isn't ready for takeoff thus delaying my flight...

 

[Diesel]

Its been proven that getting as many checklist items done before leaving the chocks reduces any errors while taxing and also doing checklists. Especially if you are single pilot.

The 23 items are there for a reason, to minimize taxi confusions and runway incursions.

Reference Delta runway incursion in FLL.