After our exhausting initial ground and simulator training for the Falcon 20, Bill and I were anxious to fly the real thing. Yesterday the owner said to go take it for a spin.
After very thorough prefilight and cockpit checks, Bill took off from our home base at Athens, GA and made the short 76 nm flight to Augusta (8,000' runway). Yes, we were both a tad apprehensive, since there are some cockpit and equipment differences between our plane and the sim. However, everything went ok. Bill made a couple landings and intentional misses (the tower at KAGS was very cooperative) and gave me the airplane. I made 3 take-offs and landings that were really pretty good . As those with experience know, the real plane flys better than the sim; plus we had no engine failures, no hydraulic failures, no electrical failures, no bad weather, no fires, etc, etc, etc. It just flew nice.
We flew back to Athens VFR at 4,500', put about 2 1/2 hours in my logbook and burned about 500 gallons of Jet A. We're ready to take the owner somewhere, anywhere now.
It was a fun day.
After very thorough prefilight and cockpit checks, Bill took off from our home base at Athens, GA and made the short 76 nm flight to Augusta (8,000' runway). Yes, we were both a tad apprehensive, since there are some cockpit and equipment differences between our plane and the sim. However, everything went ok. Bill made a couple landings and intentional misses (the tower at KAGS was very cooperative) and gave me the airplane. I made 3 take-offs and landings that were really pretty good . As those with experience know, the real plane flys better than the sim; plus we had no engine failures, no hydraulic failures, no electrical failures, no bad weather, no fires, etc, etc, etc. It just flew nice.
We flew back to Athens VFR at 4,500', put about 2 1/2 hours in my logbook and burned about 500 gallons of Jet A. We're ready to take the owner somewhere, anywhere now.
It was a fun day.