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recurrency schedule, like the airlines, and firmly believes in regular FlightSafety International visits. At this point, FSI’s Wichita Learning Center is home to the only CJ4 simulator.
Putting The CJ4 To Work
The CJ4 is used for both personal and business flying. Fred can load up four to seven people with bags and fly 1,900 nautical miles with reserves. His average trip length is about 1:45, perfect for the typical four-passenger load. Fred’s CJ4 is fitted with eight seats in the cabin. Even so, Fred says a 4,000-foot runway is adequate; “if you adhere to the numbers within the AFM, you’re good to go. The airplane delivers the numbers the book says.”
Fred stepped back to a new CJ2+ for a while. The needs of the business required more capability, however, and the CJ3+ was considered, but he decided that a CJ4 made the most sense.
Stuart Fred took delivery of the new CJ4 in early 2015, and couldn’t be happier with his choice. “Systems-wise, it’s just a lot more capable aircraft. The electrical system is practically failure-proof, with two alternators added to the two starter/generators, and the 3,621 pounds/thrust Williams FJ44-4A FADEC engines offer the highest thrust-to-weight ratio of all the Cessna Citations. It has single- point fueling, electrically-heated windshields, an externally-serviced
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lavatory, a 3,000-psi hydraulic system and most importantly, the Collins Pro-Line 21 panel with one more display, a very robust, capable four-tube avionics system.”
Because the bigger, swept-wing CJ4 can still be flown with the same C-525 type rating, a two-day differences course at FlightSafety was the only additional training requirement to be met. However, Fred adheres to a six-month
The best working altitude is FL43- 450, which can be justified for flights of 1:15 or longer, burning 980 pph at altitude, and staying five knots under the barberpole delivers a TAS of about 425 knots. Down lower, the CJ4 can be cranked up to more than 450 knots, but at a much greater fuel burn. Mmo is a very non-CJ-like .77 Mach, thanks to 12.5 degrees of wing sweep. On a typical trip of 900 nautical miles,
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