Raytheon Premier Jets - Opinions?

[hogdriver00]

Off the runway

It was mentioned that four have run off the end. Anyone have any details?

Also, anyone who operates one willing to discuss the pros and cons? Please PM me.

 

[rtmcfi]

make it five....

A Premier just went off the end of rwy 7 at KVGT......
It is pretty warm today, 33c. The wind has been shifting from 130-230 @ 15-20kt. I can't say for sure what the wind was when the pilot attempted to land. We are at 2205', and the rwy is 5000' long.

 

[THE Flying Ace]

They have been having problems with the lift dump system. The spoilers are not coming up on touchdown. Raytheon has provided a fix for this, and all aircraft coming off the line now have the fix and the ones flying are in the neighborhood of 60% done.

Without the fix, you have a supplemental performance chart for landing distances. They are simply longer distances.

 

[THE Flying Ace]

They have been having problems with the lift dump system. The spoilers are not coming up on touchdown. Raytheon has provided a fix for this, and all aircraft coming off the line now have the fix and the ones flying are in the neighborhood of 60% done.

Without the fix, you have a supplemental performance chart for landing distances. They are simply longer distances.

 

[THE Flying Ace]

They have been having problems with the lift dump system. The spoilers are not coming up on touchdown. Raytheon has provided a fix for this, and all aircraft coming off the line now have the fix and the ones flying are in the neighborhood of 60% done.

Without the fix, you have a supplemental performance chart for landing distances. They are simply longer distances.

 

[Bandit60]

Last year I was talking to a pilot that was flying the Premier and he was telling me that this airplane is not a good airplane for a owner operator. He said there are alot of "gotcha's" on this airplane. If something goes wrong with the airplane the computers wont let you start the airplane. The problem is that some of these so-called problems are pilot induced and only a mechanic knows how to reset them. It so happens that the pilot telling me this was a mechanic.

I dont know if this is true but it is what he was telling me

 

[n757st]

A UK based Premier, s/n RB-79, N200PR ran off runway yesterday at Blackbushe EGLK where RWY length is 1342 x 46m (4400'x 150')

The a/c flew from Farnborough and was single-flown.

Funny you said this, I too have seen a Premier run off a runway. Windham Connecticut a guy smashed right through the localizer on the opposite side of the field when he landed with a stiff tailwind. Runway 4200x100