Hawker 4000
10-22-2008, 02:01 PM
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Hawker 4000
On the flight last night I was reading the latest issue of 'FLYING' magazine. The cover photo and main article was on the Hawker 4000.
They give it great praise for performance, short field performance, comfort, the Honeywell Epic avionics suite, etc..... In essence they say in the article that although the Hawker class of business jets have always been popular and widely respected that this aircraft took all the goods of the past, fixed the flaws and will be a market leading SUPER mid-size aircraft
I thought that NJA was due to get quite few of these aircraft.
Would anyone out there like to sahre some first hand experience with the 4000? Any other fractionals or corporate flight depts getting the aircraft?
I still don't know if I could get use to those ram's horn yokes
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They give it great praise for performance, short field performance, comfort, the Honeywell Epic avionics suite, etc..... In essence they say in the article that although the Hawker class of business jets have always been popular and widely respected that this aircraft took all the goods of the past, fixed the flaws and will be a market leading SUPER mid-size aircraft
I thought that NJA was due to get quite few of these aircraft.
Would anyone out there like to sahre some first hand experience with the 4000? Any other fractionals or corporate flight depts getting the aircraft?
I still don't know if I could get use to those ram's horn yokes
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10-22-2008, 04:39 PM
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Now I can imagine a stick in the left hand may take some getting used to (that German Airbus crosswind video on YouTube comes to mind).
10-22-2008, 07:03 PM
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On the top actually - left hand resting on the top with the right hand resting on the stick shift. Would this make me like or dislike the horns more? I have heard they are more erogonomically styled. Even going back to flying wit the left hand and working the throotles with the right hand - I'm sure I'll have adjustments in any case 
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11-29-2011, 04:49 AM
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On the flight last night I was reading the latest issue of 'FLYING' magazine. The cover photo and main article was on the Hawker 4000.
They give it great praise for performance, short field performance, comfort, the Honeywell Epic avionics suite, etc..... In essence they say in the article that although the Hawker class of business jets have always been popular and widely respected that this aircraft took all the goods of the past, fixed the flaws and will be a market leading SUPER mid-size aircraft
I thought that NJA was due to get quite few of these aircraft.
Would anyone out there like to sahre some first hand experience with the 4000? Any other fractionals or corporate flight depts getting the aircraft?
I still don't know if I could get use to those ram's horn yokes
USMCFLYR
They give it great praise for performance, short field performance, comfort, the Honeywell Epic avionics suite, etc..... In essence they say in the article that although the Hawker class of business jets have always been popular and widely respected that this aircraft took all the goods of the past, fixed the flaws and will be a market leading SUPER mid-size aircraft
I thought that NJA was due to get quite few of these aircraft.
Would anyone out there like to sahre some first hand experience with the 4000? Any other fractionals or corporate flight depts getting the aircraft?
I still don't know if I could get use to those ram's horn yokes
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11-29-2011, 05:48 AM
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We demo flew one. It was a great preformer and I actually liked the ramhorn yoke! However we talked to an operator of two of them and quickly took the 4000 off the list of possibilities!
Also , if I'm not mistaken, didnt NJ cancell all of its 4000 orders?
Also , if I'm not mistaken, didnt NJ cancell all of its 4000 orders?
11-29-2011, 03:58 PM
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Nah it takes about 10 seconds and it feels natural. The A-320 in a gusty crosswind on the other hand is pig but it has nothing to do with the stick. It's a flight control/programing issue.
11-29-2011, 05:44 PM
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Who is eating the cost of reworking the midsection fuselage bonds on the existing Horizons? Where the steel bands that connect the fore and aft composite sections tend to rust out? Last I heard it was on the owners. Not a happy group.
11-29-2011, 06:35 PM
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Hoss, I never had an issue with crosswinds in the Bus, but I admit I'm not that experienced on it (flew it two years). To me, it might seem squirelly due to the transition from normal to direct law at---what was it? About 35 feet? That might make it feel different.
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