DayJet Updates?

[On Your Six]

Anyone got any DayJet pilot hiring or official start date updates?

I presume they have already started training for their initial cadre of pilots. Any near term hiring rumors? I have a good friend in Florida who is very interested.

 

[johnsonrod]

Gotta be starting up pretty soon. I am sure they must have a weight restriction for pilots - that Eclipse is pretty small....... Cabin looks like a Baron cabin. Should be interesting to watch DayJet to see if this air taxi concept works...

 

[On Your Six]

No updates? Not even from NBAA????? Anyone heard anything?

 

[Publishers]

It will still be awhile before they get any quantitiy of aircraft or have the need for many pilots. Just to do minimal service from the 5 cities they have selected might take 6 or 7 aircraft and I do not think they will be delivered this year.

 

[hawkerflyer]

Eclipse had a 500 in Dayjet colors at NBAA. They must see something that I don't. Forget about the payload questions with 2 pilots, I'm not sure I'd want to sit in something that cramped, even for a short intra-state trip.

 

[johnsonrod]

Eclipse had a 500 in Dayjet colors at NBAA. They must see something that I don't. Forget about the payload questions with 2 pilots, I'm not sure I'd want to sit in something that cramped, even for a short intra-state trip.

I wonder if paying passengers will be surprised when they see how small their "jet" actually is... Business passengers (I suppose the target market) won't be upset so long as they don't have more than a laptop to bring along... Regardless, it should be a fun aircraft to fly I would imagine.

 

[BODENE]

The aircraft is not certified for Part 135... It took the PC12 almost 10 years to get 135 certified. How can they operate?