The guy I fly with carries an SIC type rating and has hopes of upgrading to PIC with SIC required. The potential is there but will require considerable more time than the 100 hours FSI told us to expect. The PIC type is likely out of the question with him because of his conservative approach to flying, ie, he has only flown without me once since the PPL checkride.

As stated in my earlier post, he IS capable of preflight duties but usually elects to defer them to me because "flying the jet" is why he bought it.

From what I've seen at FSI, witnessing other owner-pilots struggling through SIC type training, and in the cockpit with my guy, those VLJ articles in the pilot magazines are misleading. The $ is going to hit the fan when these things are in the lot waiting for acceptance. As the last poster said, it's a WHOLE other world flying turbine powered aircraft...