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educational, informative, and entertaining breakout ses- sions. The evening will conclude with a dinner reception with delicious cuisine from the talented Grand America Hotel chefs and an exhilarating live auction.”
Phenom Pilots
Marcus Adolfsson (featured in Twin & Turbine’s Decem- ber 2022 issue) created the Phenom Pilots organization in 2020. Before ascending to the Phenom 300, he owned an Eclipse 500, for which he noted there was a highly passion- ate group of owners. Adolfsson hoped to replicate a group explicitly focused on owner-flown Phenoms.
Like many other formally organized ownership groups, the Phenom Pilots organization offers similar benefits – including attending member-only events, networking with fellow pilots, and learning about ownership topics through an online forum. Dissimilar to most, though, is the cost for owners and potential owners to join. The proliferation of Facebook groups helped sway him to make membership no-charge for those who can contribute to positive dialogue about Phenoms.
Someone who needs to receive access to the Phenom Pi- lots forum only needs to complete an application form on the group’s website (www.phenompilots.org). Some recent topics discussed amongst the membership include ‘Phenom 100 GPU issues fix below 30V,’ ‘Cabin Noise & Available Im- provements,’ and ‘Flaps 3 or full?’. Users also have access to a performance calculator for both Phenom models.
“Jump into the forum and start asking questions, or do a lot of reading. You can gain so much knowledge by just coming in and reading the thousands of posts that are in there – good and bad,” he began.
“You always need to be mindful that for every success- ful flight we have, we will not necessarily post about it. Right? We are going to post when we have problems. But that may be every few hundred flights. But I think someone in the market of buying a jet knows that there will be more complaints than praise in a forum like ours. But you want to find out how Embraer deals with those problems. Because there’s nothing worse than dropping that much money on a plane and having it sit in the hangar for weeks or months because you can’t get a part, and unless you had
“Jump into the forum and start asking questions, or do a lot of reading. You can gain so much knowledge... ” – Marcus Adolfsson
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