AOPA Turbine Pilot Magazine - January 2020 - T-16

THE SWANKY "Bossa Nova" interior is a

popular $750,000 option. This configuration
has forward club seats, two aft seats, a threeplace side-facing divan, and a belted potty
in the aft lavatory-which has an airline-style
vacuum-flushing, externally serviced toilet.
Valences above the cabin seats feature
flight-information displays and lighting controls. Telephones and dimming switches are
in discreet sidewall-mounted compartments.

SPEC SHEET
Embraer Praetor 600

With flaps down, gear down, and autopilot off, the FBW logic will
let you trim if you press the TCS button on the sidestick. Press it,
and your current stick force will trim out.
Now I'm hand-flying at the 116-knot VREF, waiting for the FMS'
voice to count down to the 30-foot call, at which time the autothrottles go to idle. Then it's an ever-so-slight flare and a decent
touchdown. Getting the picture right is easy, since the view down
the nose gives you a great sense of the airplane's relationship to
the runway.
After taking on 800 gallons of ecologically friendly sustainable
aviation fuel (SAF) during our quick turn, it was time to launch
on the next leg-to Henderson, and the NBAA convention. Brooks
showed me more features of the VNAV Thrust page along the way,
such as speed profile, which allows you to use default or userdefined cruise speeds and then see your optimum cruise altitude
given the conditions at hand. And the required time of arrival
(RTA) page, which figures out if you can reach a certain fix at
the time ATC requests it, then gives you the speed you'll need to
make it in time.
Two hours, 31 minutes later, I'm flying down final on
Henderson's RNAV(GPS)-B approach and negotiating a vertical path with a whopping 6.44-degree descent angle to runway
35R. Why so steep? There's a 3,359-foot-high hill next to the final
approach fix. Here's where autothrottles make sense: No matter
what your descent angle and rate, they'll adjust power to maintain your selected airspeed. On short final, the automated voice
does the countdown: "minimums"..."100"..."50"..."30"...and power
is chopped, followed by the flare and touchdown.
After shutting down in our parking spot, I left the cockpit
and took a good look at the interior. I hadn't visited it during
the entire trip. It was Embraer's latest Bossa Nova interior, a
$750,000 option, complete with textured leather seats. Somehow
it evoked both traditional and modern themes, but I didn't have
time to dwell on interiors right then. For now, I'll just make my
log entries-five hours, 21 minutes-and look forward to many
more flights like these.
AOPA
EMAIL tom.horne@aopa.org

T-16 | AOPA PILOT January 2020

Base price: $20,995,000
SPECIFICATIONS

VFE (max flap extended)
flaps 1 | 210 KIAS
flaps 2 | 185 KIAS
flaps 3 | 185 KIAS
full flaps | 170 KIAS
VLE (max gear extended) | 250 KIAS
VLO (max gear operating) | 250 KIAS
MMO (max Mach number, 29,833 ft and above) | M 0.83
AOPA Finance estimates a monthly payment of $95,000 with 20
percent down, fixed interest, and a five-year balloon.
For more information: executive.embraer.com/global/en/
praetor-600
All specifications are based on manufacturer's calculations. All performance figures are based on standard day, standard atmosphere,
sea level, gross weight conditions unless otherwise noted.

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