AOPA Pilot Magazine - January 2016 - 37

TEST PILOT

NBAA NEWS

BY BARRY SCHIFF

New Cessna jet announced
Customer input gathered at NBAA
CESSNA AIRCRAFT

Aviationoutlook
HONEYWELL FORECASTS JET MARKET

Global purchase plans remain steady; larger jets still command largest share of demand.

officials have
Regional demand
answered the quesEurope ( 4%)
14%
tion, "What's next?"
North
%
Asia Pacific
America 61
3% ( ) no change
( 2%)
at the 2015 National
%
3
Business Aviation
18%
Middle East
Association convenLatin
& Africa ( ) no change
America
( 1%)
tion in Las Vegas.
The answer is a
large business jet
Aircraft deliveries
Purchase plans by aircraft class
called Hemisphere
that can fly 4,500
nautical miles. The
Big Cabin
clean-sheet design
81% total valuation
is scheduled to fly in
Midsize
Worth 6759,200
12% total valuation
aircraft
25%
$270 725
four years, but first
projected
Small Cabin
projected
billion
through 2025
2015
valuation
7% total valuation
Cessna engineers are
deliveries
We expect roughly similar delivery levels in
gathering customer
2015-2016 as the industry transitions to new
models amid a shifting international economic
input on the interior
outlook
using an interactive
THE ANNUAL Honeywell Business Aviation
cabin concept on
Forecast scaled down its prediction of total jet
display at the show
deliveries over the next 10 years, from 9,450 in
in Las Vegas.
2014 to 9,200 in 2015.
* GE Aviation gave
another clue to the
future at Cessna
when it announced its 1,300-shaft- million Challenger 650.
horsepower engine will power Cessna's * Flight Display Systems has created
upcoming single-engine turboprop.
new one-inch-thick, 4K high-defini* Aerion, after many years of effort to tion display screens.
build a supersonic business jet, is get- * Sandel has developed a complete
ting additional help from Airbus and is avionics suite for the King Air 200
that sells for $175,000, including
looking for a factory site.
* Wheels Up, the New York-based installation.
charter company using mostly King * Nextant Aerospace received cerAirs and a few small Cessna jets, has tification to refurbish a King Air, the
partnered with a medical jet company Nextant G90XT.
for its customers.
* Pilatus has smoothed the PC-12
* One Aviation CEO Alan Klapmeier NG's airframe for speed and added a
said the next step in the Eclipse 550's five-blade propeller for better takeoff
development is global expansion.
and climb performance.
* Bombardier and NetJets celebrated
For more NBAA news, visit the
the entry into service of the $32.35 AOPA website (www.aopa.org/nbaa).
( ) - percentage change from 2014

*Figures add up to more than 100% due to rounding.

52%

(Super midsized through
business liner)

23%

(Light-medium, medium)

JOHN SAUER

Brian Sill, President, Honeywell Business and General Aviation

1. You are taking off or landing at an international airport in the United States and notice a
few grave markers embedded in and flush with
the surface of the runway. Where are you?
2. While flying in the vicinity of an airport, a
pilot flies over a marker beacon that transmits
an audio identification of "two short dots followed by a pause, two short dots followed by a
pause, and so forth." The white marker beacon
light flashes similarly. What does this signify?
3. Piper named 11 types of aircraft after Native
American tribes. How many of them can you
name, and which was the first such aircraft to
be introduced?
4. Why does it appear to the casual observer
(standing abeam and some distance away) that
a departing Airbus A380 or Boeing 747 climbs
at a lower airspeed than a smaller jet departing
at the same speed and climb angle?
5. What World War II airplane was known as
"Whistling Death"?
6. A pilot overflying desolate terrain notices a
downed airplane with two people waving near
the wreckage. A large letter X has been carefully
trampled by the survivors in the snow near the
wreckage. This signals that
a) assistance is already on the way.
b) a landing should not be attempted there.
c) food and water are required.
d) medical assistance is required.
7. Acrophobia is a fear of height, and _______ is
a fear of flying (in an aircraft).
8. Name a well-known type of aircraft in which
the pilot could extend (lower) the landing gear
from the wheel wells but could not retract it.
ANSWERS on page 39

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