Originally Posted by
quimby
Overheard on Center the other day...conversation between a 7X crew & DA-2000. 7X was at 450 (or somewhere around there)....DA2000 was in the mid to high 30's. They asked what model the Falcon was at 450. 2000 crew asks the 7X how they like the a/c.....they said "it's great, if you like doing avionics/data "reboots"..(or something to that effect).
I'm sure the 7x is a fine a/c, but it sounds like it's having teething pains from being the"A" model. I've never heard a G-V/550 crew complain about their bird openly.....not to say it hasn't happened.
Carry on...
G4G5 has it right.
I cannot speak for the Gulfstreams (never flown them), but I can for the 7X. I have done my fair share of "re-init"s (power down, wait 5 min, power up) to clear fault messages and it is frustrating, but not as often as I used to. Our dispatch rate is about 98% since the latest software upgrade. In 18 months I have only seen one mechanical issue. The rest have been avionics related.
The 7X is growing on me. It may even nudge past my favorite airplane to fly, the F2000Easy.