Range: ...I cant make Dallas to San Jose CR with reserves. ( the Excel can)
Performance: It has terrible runway numbers on shorter or Hot/High. We landed at PDK with 3 passengers the long runway was closed because of a incident. We couldn't leave for 5 hours because we needed that runway for numbers. My boss watched all those Citations leaving on the other runway.
Speed?...speed to a door to door thing and if the plane has to land 30 minutes away because it wont make runway numbers it isn't actually fast. (btw the Citation X is much faster, has better runway numbers, much, much longer range and the maintenance costs are about the same.
Maintenance: Five $15,000 PDPs in 5 years, $280K on a gear 8 year, $10 K each for the crappy little hell hole cooling fans, a APU that shuts down in high ambient heat conditions. Who the hell designs a toilet that needs a set of adapters and has a macerator pump?....and why did they put BOTH the fresh water pump and the macerator in with the
No, no they aren’t. Too slow to be the fastest, has bad runway numbers,poorly thought out cabin, cockpit and other aspects. High maintenance costs and handles like a dump truck.
