Originally Posted by
HectorD
The eclipse is sort of a BLING BLING sort of thing. Even though it was a nice jet, I kind of looked at it as the poor mans jet. In my opinion, if you can't afford to buy a citation (even if you don't need the extra space, hence the Eclipse) then you can't afford to own a jet, period. Many people don't understand that.
It wasn't a nice jet! It was a tiny airplane that couldn't meet the performance requirements of the Certification rules. It was a pipedream that never had functional avionics. It was ...........I don't even have the energy for this....