Originally Posted by
NowCorporate
The high prices on the 7X have nothing to do with runway numbers......its because of its operating costs and (more so) the fact that Dassault wouldn't lower the price in the recession, thus preserving initial buyers investment. This is normal for Dassault and certainly plays a part in why individual owners are so loyal to Falcons.
Glex, 550, 7X, etc..all these planes perform well on shorter runways. I have flown them all and every one is more than capable of short field, high altitude ops etc....as are most modern business jets.
Rich people care about their investments - and this can drive their decisions once the basics are met (comfort, range etc)....never seen it have anything to do with fpm/thrust ratio with one engine out and other useless hypothetical internet scenarios played out by cessna pilots.
I think you're wrong, but if you've flown all these planes shouldn't you be able to post up some numbers from their pilot manuals? Aren't there runway requirement tables in there? If the Falcon 7X can fly farther out of the 4000' airstrips and 5000' elevation runways of the world, then thats a huge factor to some.
The reason that I was talking about engine out thrust to weight ratios is that runway requirements are calculated with an engine out, so it should be a determining factor. Ceteris paribus, the plane with the higher engine out thrust to weight ratio should be able to get out with less runway or more fuel. But forget that, please look in the pilot manuals I'm very curious to know how they compare.
Its hard to get data on these planes on the internet. I've always been very interested in why Dassault would make (and why people would buy) their trijets. I don't know if its because of the trijets or some other characteristic of Dassault planes, but I read a lot of praise about the Falcon 50 and Falcon 900 runway performance compared to the GIIIs and GIVs of their time. Yeah the GV has a much better wing than the GIV, but the improvement from the 900 to the 7X should be huge, too. Its also a brand new wing while the wing on the 900 was straight off of the much smaller 50.