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April 29th, 2006, 18:28
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Richmond, VA
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|  Air Taxi Article.... http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/27/tech...0427/index.htm Anyone care to comment? CNN makes it seem like these VLJ's which have a payload of next to nothing will be the FUTURE... what do you guys think of the company mentioned in the article? Sink or swim? |
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April 29th, 2006, 19:17
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| Old Skool  Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: SE US & Kiev
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 | Re: Air Taxi Article....
I think if this company makes it, the skies will be very crowded. They seem to have a good business plan, from what it says, and if they did their research right, it could be good for them. Time will tell. The article sounds like the author is a little afraid of flying...mentioning turbulence bringing everybody down and scaring the walking cargo. Go figure...I could be wrong, but I don't think turbulence brought Buddy Holly's airplane down. Of course, La Bamba showed it getting shot down or something (remember the plane blowing up in the sky). |
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April 29th, 2006, 21:11
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| Old Skool  | Re: Air Taxi Article....
From their website here are the mins for those that are interested: # 3,000 hours flight time (excluding helicopter, simulator and flight engineer time) # 1,000 hours as Pilot-in-Command (PIC) # 1,000 hours multi-engine # 500 hours turbo-jet PIC They want 500 jet PIC right now. Granted these initial guys will be at the top of the company. But is jet PIC really necessary? basicly they want RJ captains now to make a lateral move into smaller equipment. I wonder if they will have a hard time finding people to make that move? What are the FAA mins for a 135 FO? this might be something I could see myself doing for a while to get my Turbine PIC.
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April 29th, 2006, 21:57
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| Old Skool Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: _
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| Re: Air Taxi Article.... Quote:
Rumor has it Quest Diagnostics is looking to replace their whole fleet with these VLJ's too. Maybe then they'd look at my resume... 
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April 29th, 2006, 22:29
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| Junior Member  Join Date: May 2005 Location: KLUF
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| Re: Air Taxi Article.... http://forums.jetcareers.com/general-topics/25514-vlj-v-turboprop-private-air.html I love the part about VLJ's not having a bathroom....I used to hear the same arguement made about Metroliners, 1900's, etc... My company has an order for three Eclipse 500's and we're basing out business plan on this same market as well...
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April 29th, 2006, 22:33
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| Old Skool | Re: Air Taxi Article....
from the http://www.dayjet.com website: Will you fly with one or two pilots? While the Eclipse 500 very light jet aircraft will be certified for single pilot operations, DayJet will initially operate each aircraft with two pilots.
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April 29th, 2006, 22:37
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| Junior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: KLUF
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| Re: Air Taxi Article....
As it stands now we are single pilot ops
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