We have been flying mainly short trips (LAF-MSN-LAF, LAF-LOU-LAF, LAF-JVY-LAF) but have done a few longer ones too (LAF-APF-CHA-LAF, LAF-GSO-LAF). The crew that flew the APF trip had to stop in CHA for gas on the way back.
The cockpit is extremely well thought out and I really like the clean design. The 'dark cockpit' seems to work well, just don't move the SIGNS/OUTLET switch to the top position (PED-BELTS/OFF) at night. It illuminates the courtesy light and the air stair lights for 5 minutes which is really distracting at night since you can't turn them off (they are on a timer).
One thing I noticed was that the flaps extend very very very slowly. Flaps 1 (10 degrees) takes a good 15 seconds which we call for on the taxi out prior to the "before takeoff" checklist.
I'm a former military aviator, all I know is a dark cockpit, I love this one.
I learned the peds-belts bit on my first flight, that was at night, never again does that switch move. No real reason too, its small, I can yell.
I put the flaps out and set the trim before I roll, so the slow flaps isn't a real issue for me. Being single pilot its all set before taxi, ,i just have to drive and cram powers.
If you want to look, N206AH is my tail. I do alot of short stuff in the NE but ive flown down and back from niagara falls to houston. There is payload limits, but only when your max on the passengers, and for me that is rare. For a eastern half of the us aircraft its great. It did great in our Buffalo NY winter and this year was a bad one.
All in all i love the aircraft, as does its owner. Who is looking to get a Phenom 300. I test flew that ant WOW that things a hot rod, at least for me. A mach .7 climb and its doing 1,400 fpm the whole time going the MMO of the phenom 100. With the auto ground spoilers and carbon brakes the 300 stops shorter than the 100, go figure.
I can't speak for all light jets, but so far this thing has done all it was supposed to do and then some. Its not like a recip, the numbers in the book are the worst case, unlike the best case unattainable numbers of our cessna 400TT (columbia).
Buffalo to Teterboro is 55 minutes and thats with full pax and 3/4 fuel for lots of holding. I fly that alot.