Flying the GIV/V - What is it like?

[Lumber Yak]

Just posing a quick question to Gulfstream IV/V pilots out there. I have always dreamed of one day flying a GIV/V. Just wanted to know your opinions of the aircraft. A few other questions:

1. How does it compare with what you flew previously?

2. Most interesting worldwide destination you have flown in it?



My goal is to one day fly a GIV or GV. I'd love to know what it is like for you....


Thanks

 

[El Cid Av8or]

I haven't flown one (yet - I'm patiently waiting in a long line) but I did get to sit in the cockpit of a G-IV a couple summers ago while they were refueling. Makes your heart pump better just looking at all the glass...kind of like the Falcon 900EX or the later Challenger 6xx series.

When the captain pulled to curtain covering the doorway back to show me around, there was about 6 inches of fog on the floor from the HVAC doing its job so well. Granted, they were drinking some fuel with the APU to make that happen.

What was even better was that the company that brought it in (the one that owns Coppertone Suntan products) also had a Challenger 601 right beside it.

I also stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night (Just kidding)

 

[LA Confidential]

Flown the III, IV and V, came out of a CL-601 to the III, difference between night and day. The CL is a great jet nice to fly, roomy flightdeck and easy to handle but the GLF’s are just all around better-designed birds.

Gulfstream put a lot of thought into the series when they put pure jets on the II; sometimes you might think they foresaw the entire family up to and including the V when they built the first II. Everything is designed with the pilot in mind, my only gripe is the size of the V and that’s not really a gripe only a pet peeve.

The III and IV are very similar but the V is light years different. About the only thing the V has common with its older sisters is the center fuselage section.

New engines, new electrical system and APU, new gizmology such as flight control systems w/ hard over protection, jammed flight control protection, split flight control capability w/ full manual reversion, ECS with automatic 3 zone temp control new automatic anti-ice system which senses ice buildup and turns AI on, clears the buildup then turns it off 5 minutes after you leave icing conditions.

I’m on the IV at present; I enjoy it more than the V primarily from a company standpoint. We see far more destinations than our V crews do, our trips are usually broken up into shorter segments with RONs’ in between and we are only out of the country 40 to 50% of the time whereas our V spends most of it’s time in Japan, China and Australia upwards of 75%.

The IV is where I’ll stay as long as we have them and to date we have no plans to off load them. The V is nice but the IV is just as capable, we haven’t taken our V anywhere yet that our IV cannot go with a tech stop or two. The only place so far I’ve seen a need for our V has been on our mainland to Aussie runs and the rare trip to Cape Town SA, which we also do with our IV’s as well. But on our IV’s we always look forward to a return 36 hr layover in Honolulu. Sipping a Mai Tai at the pool of the Hilton Hawaiian Village overlooking Waikiki beach waving at the contrail of our V as it passes overhead.

I like to operate under an old saying one of our former COO’s had regarding the IV over the V.

“I’ll never fly over a perfectly good golf course.”

14 hrs vs. 9 hrs is a long time for my old rear these days.

Regards,
LA

 

[LearLove]

I bet that GVFlyer guy can tell you. Just PM him. I think he built one or two in his garage or something like that. He sure put up alot of info in the past.. just search back. GVFlyer Said, "and this one time at GV camp.........."

 

[banned username 2]

I think he built one or two in his garage or something like that. GVFlyer Said, "and this one time at GV camp.........."

HAHAHAHA.... You'll killin' me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[fokkerjet]

Quick question for a G-IV pilot: when you FLEX, what is your reduction in EPR? In the GV, an EPR reduction not to exceed .154 of rated thrust, or 1.39 minimum.

thanks

 

[Shag_McNasty]

An EPR reduction not to exceed .15 , or 1.56 minimum on the GIV.