Tbm 930 florida to saint barthelemy

[DuncanNL]

Early 3 and a half hour long flight from Miami opa locka airport 🇺🇸 to the famous airport of Saint Barthélemy 🇧🇱. Flying in the Daher TBM-930 and cruising at 31000feet and Mach 0.55, pretty impressive for a general aviation aircraft.

Information about this flight;

• Server: expert server

• Airplane: Daher TBM-930

• Livery: N930TX

• Route: KOPF 🇺🇸 to TFFJ 🇧🇱.

• Flight time: 3 hours and 26 minutes.

Walk-around

Departure out of KOPF runway 30.

Above the Bahamas 🇧🇸.

On short final.

Welcome to Saint Barthélemy 🇧🇱.

What do you think about this post?

[Delta]

Awesome pictures

[M1llard]

@DuncanNL

cruising at 31000feet

The TBM930 is not meant to fly that high, not in real life or in IF…just saying

[DuncanNL]

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[Dinho]

you should make it a group flight if you ever do more like this again and get some really cool shots!

[M1llard]

Ermm, do you know what it means by “Service Ceiling”?

Service Ceiling is the maximum altitude an aircraft can fly up to, that does not mean that you cruise at that altitude as you’ll be pushing the engine to the max.

People mostly cruise at FL280-FL300 or somewhere around there but seldom do you see people flying at FL310 in a TBM.
Its the same for commercial jets, the service ceiling of the B788 is 43,100ft but you don’t ever see any airlines cruising at FL430

[DuncanNL]

I’ve seen many airliners like the 787 or the 350 at FL430 even the 747-400 can fly at FL450. For a further discussion you can PM.

[InfiniteFlightNewark]

TUI flies the B787s at FL430, I’ve seen it a lot same with BA

[M1llard]

But that’s recent, right?

[M1llard]

Most airliners cruise at their service ceiling now cus the aircraft is lighter than what they would usually be, so it makes sense to be cruising at their service ceiling

[USA_ATC]

Getting off track here people let’s take to a pm. @M1llard

Awesome photos @DuncanNL love the TBM!

[DuncanNL]

You are right, thanks!