How short landing performance takes Dassault’s Falcon places other business jets can’t reach – AIN

this AI n video is brought to you by corporate angel Network so today I had the opportunity to fly in this Falcon 8 x2 battery airport in shallow France I got to fly one go around and then one normal landing and one short field landing with deso test pilot Fabrice gooniac in the right seat [Music] this is the third time I've flown the Falcon 8x and it's one of my favourite airplanes I would really like the fly-by-wire flight control system [Music] for the final landing we plan to do a full stop short field landing with maximum braking I practice this two days before in the Falcon 8x simulator at the Falcon Flight Safety Learning Centre in the Borgia done it about five times so I felt pretty comfortable doing it in the real airplane there is nothing there is no magic button it's normal approach normal earning full brakes and you see at laning will be stopped before the end of the runway for sure unable to vacate at the taxiway so it's totally normal no training special we learned as every tunnel Falcon 8x is very comfortable inside the cabin is extremely quiet one of its most impressive attributes is the 6450 nautical mile range that's Paris to Los Angeles Moscow to Los Angeles but what's interesting also is while its large inside the airplane has a fairly small footprint so finding a hangar fort is a little bit easier than a larger society brain [Music] we're our final approach to this at bat or Airport in Switzerland the runway is only three thousand five hundred and seventy six feet long so this is going to be a short field landing if maximum braking they're both highly experienced defined fly-by-wire Falcons they've both flown all the Falcon models as well as des OHS fighter the Rahal which uses the exact same fly-by-wire system as Falcon IX and seven things we're probably about seven hundred feet above the ground now getting close to landing and the ref is probably around 113 knots which is pretty slow for such a large Airport approaching minimums 20 30 20 10 and we're stopped let's see trying to figure out how much runway we used okay we didn't even use two thirds of this 3576 foot runway very remarkable performance in the Falcon 8x you [Music] if you've enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up share it and subscribe to our channel also visit AI n online.com and check out our e-newsletters for all the latest on the aviation industry

Channel: Aviation International News

Views: 185,290

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Keywords: #business jet, #dassault, #falcon8x, #landing

Id: PPKEcRLxvWk

Length: 4min 41sec (281 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 22 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Karnov_with_wings]

Imagine if it had actual thrust reversers. I don't ever use the TR on the 7x because it's not nearly as efficient as other planes. Brakes seem to work just fine

[u/Josephat]

A short field performance demonstration that is amazing

[u/SlantedBlue]

Big planes have pretty amazing performance when they are super light. I assume this falcon was nearly empty since they probably also are planning to depart. It's just not mission practical to be empty all the time.

Some friends would talk about empty repositioning flights from sfo to lax in the 747-400 and apparently it was out of this world flying the queen of the skies at half weight.

[u/SlowDownToGoDown]

Every rich dude in East Hampton (KHTO) is ordering an 8X now...

[u/Baystate411]

The 170s unfactored landing distance is like 1800 feet (I forget which weight). Thats inclduing landing 1000 feet down the runway with no reversers. Shit is cray

[u/coma24]

If you put 'em down on the numbers, max brakes on a dry runway and you're super light, aren't MOST bizjets going to stop in a similar distance?

The only way this is unique is if this plane has an abnormally low VRef or abnormally good brakes, right? Are either of those the case?

[u/Zeus1325]

smh. A 727 can do it in a runway only 400 ft longer.

[u/izanti]

Pshhh we can do that too! Sure, we may weigh 25,000 pounds less but still ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[u/timbofoo]

Is takeoff distance shorter on these small jets than landing? I always thought landing was the easy part distance-wise.