Professional Pilot, May 2018

A swept wing twin engine prop jet with pusher engines is what Id design Forward canard wing with a roomy cabin for 8 passengers and a cruise speed of 400 kts Also need a service ceiling of 41000 ft and A range of 2000 nm Garmin G1000 for the avionics And a large aft baggage compartment of course Danny Culler Comm Multi Inst King Air 200 Chief Pilot Eagle Sunrise Air Winston Salem NC Design would be a twin engine jet that could operate on a balanced field length of 5000 ft and have a 6500 nm range while flying 95 Mach at FL510 Cabin would have to carry 14 passengers and bags comfortably Stuart Carlin ATP CFII Challenger 604 Lead Captain Contract Pilot Summerville SC Our ideal design would be a 3 4th scale Concorde supersonic jet Carbon fiber fuselage tube and as many engines as needed for Mach 20 But we still need a 6 hour range to meet mission needs Henry Putek ATP FE Boeing 787 Captain Kestrel Aviation Partners Kailua Kona HI For my design it would be 2 engines with a 82 Mach cruise that could carry 8 passengers for 1200 nm in still air Also a FL380 cruise ceiling so Im not at FL450 for 2 hours on an uncomfortable oxygen mask breathing dry fatiguing O 2 Mark Williams ATP CFII FE A P Citation Encore Pilot NetJets Ft Collins CO Lear 35 is already perfect for what we do so its an easy pick for me Craig Seither Comm Multi Inst A P Learjet 35 King Air 200 Mechanic Inspector Miami Valley Aviation Fairfield OH 32 PROFESSIONAL PILOT May 2018 Single engine jet is all we would need for our missions Has to carry crew plus 4 pax with luggage and be able to fly from Chicago to South Florida nonstop Aircraft has to have this range 100 of the time regardless of the weather or season Jim Jacobi ATP CFII Citation CJ1 King Air B100 Director of Ops Exec Aero Charter Mgmt Noblesville IN Put together the best features found on the Falcon 900 6X and 2000 Theyre all really great aircraft so this design would pretty much cover everything we need to do our missions Galen Baird ATP CFII Hawker1000 Dir of Ops Captain Baird Aviation Green Valley AZ Very much like PC12 really but my optimum design would include an automatic emergency descent system Id also add a small lav with a drainage valve and port Javed Sheikh ATP Dornier 328JET Owner Captain Crew Resource Mgmt Chicago IL I would use the Piaggio P180 Avanti concept as a baseline to build on then modify the design for a larger aircraft Jerry Morelock ATP Swearingen Merlin IIIC Chief Pilot Pro Field Services San Marco TX Now or in years past what aircraft have you especially enjoyed piloting Why Most likely the DC3 Firing up those radial engines running through the before takeoff checklist and then the roar of those engines that even the Bose could not tame What a thrill Kevin Savord ATP Citation CJ4 Chief Pilot Allied Aircraft Boulder City NV Had the privilege of flying the 1st civil aircraft incorporating a supercritical wing section design the Dassault Falcon 50 I really enjoyed flying it because of its reliability and responsiveness in addition to its beautiful silhouette Short runways were not a problem due to its steep approach capability and outstanding brakes It was left behind by its successor the Falcon 900 with a much longer range and payload Jorge Barroso ATP Gulfstream G650 Captain Flight Safety Spvr SEAF Alcobendas Madrid Spain Have always enjoyed flying the UH60 Black Hawk Even though this helicopter was built long ago it still has so much useful life left It has been and remains a great platform for our missions Trent Thomas Comm Multi Inst Helo UH60 Black Hawk Pilot HDS Vail AZ The DC3 offers a feeling of history The B727 was the last design of a pilots airplane before electric jets took over And the B757 was a great match of an airplane with performance and the update to a glass cockpit But the CJ3 is a nice size fun to fly dependable and has a 45000 ft cruise altitude Ray Justinic ATP CFII Challenger 604 Chief Pilot Airtech Hebron KY Easy for this question to conjure thoughts of powerful fast and sexy aircraft for those of us fortunate enough to pilot an assortment of turbine equipment But not for me the plane I enjoyed flying the most was the Cessna 150 My love of flying began in that machine so it quite naturally became my 1st and true aviation love That will never change Ken Winters ATP CFII Challenger 604 Av Dept Mgr Professional Care I Miami FL