Here are a few Hawker 800XP facts. If you are going east coast to west coast in the XP you are going at long range cruise which is .70. If the winds are over about 50 knots you are going to have to stop even at LRC unless you are going to cut your reserve way down.
BOW is 16400 lbs.
Fuel capacity is 10000 lbs
max takeoff weight for FL410 at ISA is 25800 lbs, ISA +5 is 24.7, ISA-5 is 26.5
As you can see you will rarely be able to straight to FL410 if you have full fuel which you have to have if you want to attempt coast to coast. Once you get to FL410 you won't be doing .78 it will be more like .76 until you burn some fuel.
Here are a couple of scenarios:
IAD-LAX 52kt headwind High speed cruise FL400 8935 lbs 5+36
LRC 5+56 7790lbs 1983 nm
TEB-LAX 39 kt hw HSC FL400 5+51 9300 lbs
LRC 6+12 8100 lbs 2131 nm
As you can see you aren't going to make it during the winter. HSC to Salina, fill up and go.
Fuel burn for the first hour is about 2200 lbs and 1800 for the second at HSC.
The Hawker 800XP is a great airplane and I love it, but I would not call it a coast to coast airplane. It is comfortable, reasonably quick and it handles shorter runways reasonably well.
Pat
BOW is 16400 lbs.
Fuel capacity is 10000 lbs
max takeoff weight for FL410 at ISA is 25800 lbs, ISA +5 is 24.7, ISA-5 is 26.5
As you can see you will rarely be able to straight to FL410 if you have full fuel which you have to have if you want to attempt coast to coast. Once you get to FL410 you won't be doing .78 it will be more like .76 until you burn some fuel.
Here are a couple of scenarios:
IAD-LAX 52kt headwind High speed cruise FL400 8935 lbs 5+36
LRC 5+56 7790lbs 1983 nm
TEB-LAX 39 kt hw HSC FL400 5+51 9300 lbs
LRC 6+12 8100 lbs 2131 nm
As you can see you aren't going to make it during the winter. HSC to Salina, fill up and go.
Fuel burn for the first hour is about 2200 lbs and 1800 for the second at HSC.
The Hawker 800XP is a great airplane and I love it, but I would not call it a coast to coast airplane. It is comfortable, reasonably quick and it handles shorter runways reasonably well.
Pat