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Thoughts on Contrail Falcon 50?

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What is the runway performance like in this jet?

Christopher Low

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UK2000 Beta Tester

Depends on what you are looking for.

Here's an extract of the manual, the Contrail 50 seems to match this chart

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Guillaume

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That looks like rather impressive performance. I would like to have an executive jet (or small airliner) that can handle a runway as short as 3500 feet with no passengers or cargo, and a decent fuel load.

Christopher Low

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The Contrail Falcon 50 is my one of my go-to bizjets alongside the Citation Sovereign by Skyward, the Xtreme LJ25 and the FSR 300E, th Falcon though-she's a beauty to fly!

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I love the Falcon - the developers did an excellent job job and considered the things a single sim pilot needs (click spots for difficult to reach buttons and a autothrottle for the cruise). My only problem was to programm an arrival in flight - did someone succeed to do that?

And I have some trouble to handle the plane after landing in side wind conditions - one or twice I went on the grass - but I am sure that is my fault.

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1 hour ago, PTI139 said:

And I have some trouble to handle the plane after landing in side wind conditions - one or twice I went on the grass - but I am sure that is my fault.

Technically the Falcon 50 is capable of operating on unpaved runways but is limited to a 33.000 lbs gross weight so there's that 😅

Edited by TopGun33

Guillaume

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5 hours ago, PTI139 said:

My only problem was to programm an arrival in flight - did someone succeed to do that?

Yes, I managed - twice. I somehow managed to delete the whole flight plan while enroute, reloaded it and inserted STAR and destination runway. The wrong runway. I deleted the STAR and inserted both again, STAR and the correct runway.

I followed the manual over at Contrail and everything went well.

1 hour ago, Jure said:

Yes, I managed - twice. I somehow managed to delete the whole flight plan while enroute, reloaded it and inserted STAR and destination runway. The wrong runway. I deleted the STAR and inserted both again, STAR and the correct runway.

I followed the manual over at Contrail and everything went well.

Ah, yes, thanks, I will give the manual another read,

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