Hey thank Paul, you can let him know I fly serial number RB-123, N332CM.
One of our pilots has a brother that flies a Premiere out of maybe Gaithersburg MD maybeā¦
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Hi Chris,
Yea I think I heard there is one based down there.
That is about an hour drive for me.
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I have to admit, I know zero about the Premiere. If Iām to be honestā¦it sure is an odd looking aircraft with that guppy bottom and long nosewheel strut. An uneducated guess is that the guppy bottom allows the wing spar to go under the passenger compartment floor, giving extra room. And you can feel free to rake me over the coals for flying a Citationā¦LOLā¦I heard Indy Center slowing a 328Jet today on our way into LUK to make sure they didnāt overtake us. I promise Indy Centerā¦we were pedaling as hard as we couldā¦
That reminds meā¦we sure could use some ARTCC and Tower controllers here at Mudspike. Used to be a great guy in Savannah that I used to know over at SimHQ - RadarContact was his username. I wonder if he is still down thereā¦ 
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Hey Chris the Premier if you are 6 feet you can just about stand up in the cabin, shorter than that and you can stand up. You are correct about the spar which is not seen in the passenger compartment.
I dont bad mouth any other aircraft. Citations are a good plane I have lots of hours in a C550 and a C525 and a C525A all single pilot. I fly copilot in an Excel once in awhile too but I am not type rated in it. Every plane has its good and bad points. What I like about the Premier is its speed red line is 320 kts IAS and MMO is .80 which it will do and on the one I fly the over speed horn doesnt come on till .805 so if ISA is about +2 or colder it will cruise right at .80 What I dont like about it is it is limited on how much fuel it can carry. If you are in the air for 3 hours better be ready to land.
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The Premiere sounds like a real performer. Mmo of .80 is pretty darn good. Ours are .755 but above FL350 your more likely to be at around .72 at published N1. I flew an Excel one time and it was a really nice airplane. I have a few hundred hours in the C525ā¦I really enjoyed flying it. Ours was one of the early serial numbers (71) and it had some teething problems. Weād reach ITT limits on the engines during takeoff instead of the computed N1, which obviously isnāt ideal for performance planning (and we were operating it from a 3,600ā airfield). Twice it dropped the gear on its own in high speed descents and shucked the gear doors. LOLā¦I think Cessna got all the bugs worked out in later serial numbers.
Haā¦thatās a bonus feature for me. I like airplanes that canāt go far. Iām happy we are getting PC-24s since it doesnāt look like our range will increase much over the Ultras. I get fidgety after three hours. I donāt know how @PaulRix does it. Of courseā¦he can get up, walk around, get coffee, and practice putting in his airplaneā¦so thereās thatā¦
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The extra range of the Global is actually a great thing. I never have to sweat about fuel when flying domestically. In fact we will tanker gas if it makes financial sense to do so. It also means we donāt have to do a fuel stop in Gander on the way back from Europe, which was a regular thing in the Challenger. Gander in the Winter can be not fun. In the Global we just press on, all the way to Texas!
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