Did the VFE actually do anything for you or was it flickin' and a fiddlin' all the way over??
Hiya Dave,
I'm not sure what he did, but all I had to do was navigate, fly the thing, manage comms and TRY to manage the fuel. I'm assuming he looked after pressurisation, electrics etc etc but who knows.
If I was really brave, I'd do the return sector WITHOUT the VFE switched on and see what happens. I'm still recovering from the earlier flight though.
she loses money a treat, G-BOAG is now run in at mach 2.02 and 57K alt,
G-BOAC has been to mach 2.04 and 61k feet in a moment of foolishness (cos i flamed out and had a supersonic stall but we dont mention that in polite company), landed fine but wont be doing that again.
she is fine handling unless you step over the limits
the one thing i would advise as S.O.P is ALWAYS go with full tanks, othewise this plane will be hell to fly on flynet, that way your CofG will be in the right place and predicatable and you REALLY dont want to get low on fuel in this, again for CofG control reasons.
working up the bottle to do the singapore run cos that will test my abilitys i think, I,will never have flown it for that long on 1 leg, me thinks the fuel and CofG could get "exciting" if mismanaged
