We turned on the boots as we entered the clouds, along with the engine anti-ice we’d engaged after takeoff and the alcohol-based ice protection system for the windshield.
We had a lot of room under the overcast and only a thin layer to contend with, so what we picked up in the transit between 2,500 and 10,000 feet-though not anything to brush off-was a nonevent, save for the fact it gave me a good sense of how the deice and anti-ice systems work on the SF50. On our first flight in the previous G2 model, N858AG, back in December 2020, the ice was not only anticipated-yeah, December-it was also wholly expected, given the reports of light rime on the descent from Delta and Envoy flights coming into Knoxville that morning. Fair warning for next time, Matt! But once more, it was instructive on many levels.
So far, we are two for two in gathering a significant collection of mixed ice on our duo of days flying the jet together. I should have known-or maybe Bergwall should have been more skeptical of-the juju I would bring to the flight when he picked me up at Wilson Air Center on the west side of the field at Chattanooga. There’s an underlying comfort to that but also a different kind of responsibility. Not that we even came close to pulling out that particular checklist, but the fact that this is one jet with that final option available entered into my thought process. And it keeps most of us, I believe, from pulling that handle indiscriminately.īut I thought of this option when we encountered a long climb through unanticipated ice in early July during a test flight of the latest Vision Jet iteration, the G2+, from Chattanooga (KCHA), Tennessee, to Hagerstown (KHGR), Maryland.
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The sense of this stays with you, proved when I flew in the company’s Vision Jet G1 simulator this past fall at the Vision Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. Many pilots, myself among them, will feel uneasy-or worse-at surrendering control of the airplane to a piece of fabric suspending on thick cables somewhere above the airframe, as you swing like a pendulum below. The company wants everyone who will sit left seat in its single-engine Vision Jet to know how that feels so pilots will be able to do it if they need to-but not without conscientious determination. Somewhere in between sits a pilot in the future who has pulled on the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System handle in a Cirrus SF50. The pilots who have put various aircraft through their initial paces in the experimental stage may know another-the deployment of a flight-test airframe chute to recover during spin testing gone south, or an airframe mishap. What will it feel like if you ride the chute down? Skydivers know one answer-based on the parachute they strap themselves into.
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