G280
 

Anybody flying the G280 here?

Thoughts and views and any operational tips welcomed.

Fantastic airplane.

Solid 7.5 hour range. Goes to 43,000 at any weight. You'll get 45,000 at most wieghts around ISA.

4,750 ft balanced field at max gross.

Auto throttles work well. Auto brakes brake better than I do.

We mostly cruise at .81 for a balance of speed and fuel burn. Fuel flows at cruise (43,000 and .81) are in the mid 800's lbs. per side.

The next Fusion revision should clean up most of the avionics gremlins.

I that what you were looking for?

Thanks for your reply.

We've just last month started operating one. I agree, a fantastic aircraft.

Have you had any AOG issues? How long have you operated them?

We've had a few issues recently, Fadec failure caused a flight cancellation most recently. The nuiscance CAS's such as control sweep required, bottle pressures, WWS maintenance required etc are as you say going to be rectified with 3.6.

We are using 0.80 as our CRZ mach generally, and always get to 430 or above. Our fuel figures are generally as you say.

Regards

Astra and Jeger,

How do you like the ProLine Fusion? How does it compare to former avionics packages?

It's fantastic. Very intuitive, clear, integrated. The CCD works really well. Learning the avionics was certainly the biggest part of the type rating. The displays can be configured in many ways.

In the near-ish future, software release 3.6 comes out. This will supposedly further enhance the system. It encompasses (reputedly) major display format changes and functionality such as Wi-Fi updating of the system, reputedly Wi-Fi FADEC downloads, Jepps etc. We have the 3 FMS option, works really well.