Just appreciating lines and textures. Soon to be retired Citation. Northern to southern California.
1:30 pm, training server, Monterey Regional to LAX.
No words really, just liking the wonder of flight:
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I didn’t know we had that livery!
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I saw it before, but I forgot. Kind of unique with the full color tone and lines.
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I use it alot in the middle east and africa
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It does give some nice contrast.
Looking forward to seeing the skies full of these beauties. It’s a rare sight seeing a Citation these days. Finally, GA and business jets will get some love that they really deserve. Crowded skies at FL450 👀
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Until you mentioned it, I wasn’t aware that the service ceiling of the typical business aircraft was quite a bit higher than the typical larger commercial airline type aircraft.
Of the airliners maybe the 787, A380, A350 are around FL430 (don’t know how reliable my source), but the 747 actually was a few thousand feet higher.
Business jets can be up around FL500 (depending on model).
Will be watching the commercial aircraft from above…
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The main difference is that you rarely see these heavy jets operating at their ceiling. Maybe the A350 sometimes. The good thing with the Challenger is, you basically never fly it under FL410.
can the crj200 fly at 45000 ft?
Most certainly not haha
but its the size of the citation…
So is the Douglas DC3… your point?
Okay… But…
@tunamkol I was searching for a simple explanation to understand size vs service ceiling. It’s not completely clear to me. Is it just that they’re built with more power to weight ratio (allowing early climb to high FL), because the cost of thrust per useful load can be higher than a commercial aircraft? That doesn’t sound quite right.
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Honestly, I have no clue. What I can say is when you’re climbing with the CL35, you can maintain a constant rate of maybe 7000, 8000VS as long as you’re not that heavy. This is up to like 25000 feet
I don’t think you can do that with the CRJ
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