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well, and he enjoys the annual training to stay sharp in the cockpit.
“I did my jet transition and type rating training in my aircraft at a place in Long Beach called Aero City Flyers. I highly recommend them. They deal with a lot of Mustang owners and maintain many of them
as well. My initial type rating training took about a week. Now every year I go back for my recurrent training, which is basically a day of classroom and sim training and then the check ride. It’s not too hard, and it’s good for me. And they’re right here in my backyard, so it’s convenient.”
These dedicated times in the plane have allowed Lund to become better acquainted with its operations and more appreciative of its capabilities.
“I have been pleasantly surprised by many things in the Mustang. It’s a slightly slower jet that some people have even referred to me as ‘The Fisher Price of Jets.’ But it does 340 knots true all day long – double the speed of the Columbia 400 – and almost al- ways exceeds the POH. Sometimes as I’m flying home and on arrival into Southern California, there will be other commercial jets on my tail and the controllers will move me a few de- grees off course to allow them to pass me. But for my mission, the Mustang is phenomenal,” Lund proudly noted.
“My missions are usually a thousand miles or less, so a typical flight for me is an hour to two and a half hours long. It burns around a hundred gal- lons an hour until you get to altitude. Then once you get to altitude, where I typically fly in the mid-30s, it burns about 80 gallons an hour. Turboprops
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