# Presentation: 768907

## The Very Light Jets (VLJs) are coming...

**Don Taylor March 18, 2005**

## VLJ Manufacturers(Not all will survive!)

- Cessna Mustang

- Eclipse 500

- Adam A700

- Avocet Projet

- Diamond D-Jet

- Safire Jet

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## The Eclipse 500A new breed of GA aircraft

**Similar in size, weight and cost to a new Baron**
**But the similarity ends there**
**Slower approach speeds, over twice the cruise speed and three times the altitude performance**
**Capable of operation from smaller airports, yet able to cruise comfortably in the high Flight Levels**
**Disruptive technology is coming to GA**
**	****Once it hits the market, GA will never be the same again**

## Cruise speed	375 kt
Stall speed	67 kt
Range		1,280 nm		w/pilot, 3 pax NBAA IFR 
Useful load	2,250 pounds

**Cruise speed****	****375 kt**
**Stall speed****	****67 kt**
**Range****	****	****1,280 nm****	****	****w/pilot, 3 pax NBAA IFR**** **
**Useful load****	****2,250 pounds**

**Takeoff/landing distance ****	****<2,200 ft**
**Ceiling****	****41,000 ft**
**Certified for single-pilot operation**
**Powered by PW610F turbofan engine**

**Value Proposition:****Twin-Engine Jet for $1.175M**

## Key Enablers for the Eclipse 500

**Highly integrated avionics and systems**

**Modern turbine technology**

**Innovative manufacturing technology and practices**

**Notes:**
I’m sure before you even came here today, you had read about the key technologies in our aircraft, but it bears repeating because they really are the pillars on which everything else is built.  But I’ll also add a fourth pillar, which is our reliance on world-class business practices.

Let’s talk a little more about that.

## A New Generation of Small, Light Weight Jet Engines by Pratt & Whitney Canada  

**PW600**** engine family is the leader in the very light jet (VLJ) segment**
**P&WC corporate strategy is to invest ****heavily in capturing this new category **
**PW615F (1,350 lbf) for Cessna Mustang**
**PW610F (900 lbf) for Eclipse 500**
**PW610F key features**
**Dual-channel FADEC – total automatic control**
**APR OEI rated**
**Initial maintenance – 1,750 hours HSI, 3,500 hour TBO**
**Easy and quick maintenance**
- HSI on pylon
- 1 1⁄2 hour engine change

## Eclipse 500 Is Designed for Safety

**Large envelope of operations with low inertia**
**67 knot stall speed and 375 knot max cruise speed **
- 87 knot approach, easy to avoid landing accidents (42% of business jet/turboprop)
**Quick accelerate / decelerate rates make possible quick, safe transitions from one phase of operations to the next**
**High gear/flap operation speeds**
**	****V****FE**** ****= 200kts**
**	****V****LO**** ****= 250kts**
**	****V****LE**** ****= 285kts**
**	****V****MO**** ****= 285kts **

## Eclipse Aviation Is Succeeding

**Eclipse Aviation Is Succeeding**

**Flight  testing with FAA conforming aircraft underway**
**$398M of equity and debt funding **
**2,150+ orders on books**
**190,000 ft****2**** of facilities in place**
**Company is 380+ employees and growing**
**Manufacturing 6 additional test aircraft**
**On track for  FAA certification in March 2006**
**On track for JAA certification by the end Q2 2006**

## Very Light JetsHow will they fit in the airspace?

**Air Traffic Control assumptions:**
**All aircraft are the size of a large commercial jet **
**All aircraft want to land at the major airports**
**All aircraft should maintain the same speed on final**
- It makes lining them up easier
**Results**
**Airspace has been designed to ease the controller’s job, not the pilot’s**
**Traffic flow is set-up for hubs and spokes**
**Vast quantities of airspace have been wasted because of uncertainty about where the aircraft really are**
- Because of the radar based ATC system

## VLJ’s & the Air Space

**Current Air Traffic Control system:**
**Uses 50 year old technology to separate aircraft**
**Radar on the ground needs multiple sweeps to build a track file on a target aircraft**
**Radar  requires >15 seconds to obtain usable data**
**Only then can it determine position, direction and speed **
**Altitude information comes from the target aircraft via an on board altitude encoder**
**Result**
**Positional uncertainty – large airspace buffers are required and airspace is wasted**
**Solution**
**RHSM  (Reduced Horizontal Separation Minimums - much like RVSM)**

## Reduced Separation

**Is RHSM possible?  **
**Yes, the technology has been around for years**
- Technology developed in the early 90’s
**Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B)**
- Each aircraft broadcasts its highly accurate, GPS derived position, altitude, speed and direction once per second
**Cockpit Display of Traffic Information (CDTI)**
- CDTI traffic information from ADS-B is highly accurate and may be received and displayed by any properly equipped aircraft
**Result:  ADS-B/CDTI equipped aircraft can see each other **
- If barometric altimetry is adequate for 1,000’ vertical separation, GPS position data should allow 1,000’ horizontal separation

## Free Flight 

**ADS-B and CDTI are enablers for Free Flight**
**Autonomous aircraft and self separation will free up the airspace**
**Resistance to change**
**Naysayer concerns - improve radar and hire more controllers**
- The responsibility for separation should remain on the ground
**Is it possible that pilots could self separate?**
**Netherlands trials – pilots liked it and reported it was much easier than they expected **
**Question:  **
**If a radar based ATC system did not exist and two “Free Flight” aircraft had a conflict in flight, would we elect to resolve this problem through a third party on the ground?**

## VLJ’s as Air Taxis 

**Air Taxi is a new business model**
**The market is in development and will change air travel**
**VLJ’s are the enabler for this concept**
**The idea brings direct air service closer to the customers home or business**
**VLJ aircraft will have very low operating cost **
**Air Taxi aircraft will fly from one small airport to another, bypassing all hubs and spokes **
**Result:  A whole new method of transport that brings fast,  affordable air travel closer to the customer’s front door **
**NASA study shows that average door to door speed for a 500 mile trip is 70 mph using airlines**
**Will the model work?**
**Eclipse has customers that are betting it will **

## VLJ’s and Major Hubs 

**VLJs will be able to utilize 10,000 airports in the U.S.**
**Airlines only serve around 600 airports **
**Will VLJ’s fly into the major airline hubs, adding congestion and taking up runway time?  **
**Absent the special runways and procedures, logic suggests this will not happen **
**Why fly into a hub when there are feeder airports closer to ultimate destination  **
**Rarely will a VLJ choose the congestion, TSA screening, landing fees and hassle associated with airports that have 10,000’ runways they don’t need  **
- Owner operators will avoid the hassle and the Air Taxi model is based on using small airports closer to the customers home
**VLJ’s could easily operate into and out of major hubs using small, 3,000’ runways  **
- Curved approaches could provide easy access
- One or more inexpensive, low load bearing runways could be located in the corner of a hub

## The VLJ Revolution

**Don Taylor March 18, 2005**