Asian Sky Quarterly 2022 Q3

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Flight envelope expansion (including to .97 Mach, brushing the
sound barrier) has been complete for months.
In August, a flight test aircraft baked in the Tunisian desert at
temperatures up to about 50°C to assure proper functioning in
high heat and proper cooling while flying circuits at 10,000 feet
over the desert. These were bookend tests to cold soak trials in
the winter near the Arctic Circle in Canada, which involved aircraft
operations after cold soaking overnight to -38°C.
A full flight simulator for the 6X is up and running at CAE Burgess
Hill in the UK and will be ready for training the first customer
crews soon. Pilots will have a chance to train on the most
advanced avionics yet installed in a Falcon. Its new EASy IV
flight deck includes safety alerts to prevent runway overruns and
detailed airport moving maps to make it easy to taxi in limited
visibility, especially in complex airports with multiple runways
and a maze of taxiways. Owners can now order dual head-up
displays with the FalconEye combined vision system. Already,
FalconEye operators with a single HUD can descend to within 100
feet of the runway in limited visibility.
The toughest test of all - the real world
To give the 6X the kind of work out it can expect in customer
operations, Dassault planned a grueling world tour to evaluate
reliability far from testing bases in France.
Within the month of
July, the first production
6X touched down in
more than 50 cities
on five continents
(all but Australia and
Antarctica), over 150
flight hours."
Serial number 004 experienced no aircraft-on-ground (AOG)
issues and no delays.
The aircraft was crewed over that time by a dozen pilots and
several flight attendants. Also along to assess more than 250
reliability items were dozens of engineers doubling as test
passengers on various legs.
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