Flying the Eclipse 500 Jet

[@timblack33]

I love an instructor with solid mechanical understanding of the airframe. Awesome.

[@brandonsuarez8283]

One of my business partners has serial number 001 of the eclipse 500. Also is the highest time of any eclipse ever flown. They're awesome airplanes

[@christopherschramko6001]

I have to ask… is that tail N1EA? We’ve had them come into KDFW a lot recently @brandonsuarez8283

[@brandonsuarez8283]

@@christopherschramko6001 no

[@AceNinja2112]

That instructor has the best attitude of any flight instructor I have ever encountered!

[@lephotographinc]

AGREE

[@adrianflower3230]

What an awesome experience 👍Thanks for sharing Matt😀

[@bjhaines3282]

That guy is great on the radio

[@AnthonyRBlacker]

Oh man I sure hope he's CFI and you logged that time!! Well I guess you can log it anyway being you fly a jet already, but man what a fun flight!! Storms are SO scary!

[@jonclassical5710]

WOW...another Bert Rutan based creation......I am a Cessna Citation guy......nice to see you adding so many aircraft to your "planes I have flown"...look'n good there Matt........Cheers !!!

[@ELcinegatto87]

IS&S avionics are so nice and I love their font. The A/P and A/T on the newer Eclipes has an almost airliner like feel including the same displays used to upgrade old B757/B767s, often freighters and private. They were way ahead of the curve retrofitting those airframes in the late 2000s for ABX's B762Fs. The GTN/Garmin stuff is nice but you just don't see system synoptics on light jets of this size. Amazing airplane. Would love to own one someday.

[@aviatorel32]

My dream jet, fast, efficient, fun to fly.

[@PilotDaveLI]

Great video. I have time in the Eclipse and it's a great plane. Underrated for sure. And yes the captain is this video was awesome, great explanation of the system. IS&S system isn't for everyone, but it works nice for this plane.

[@ericm333]

Thanks for sharing. Bit warmer than standard @ FL350. Nice flight 😊

[@roconnor01]

Great landing.

[@longerhar]

best video yet. viewers feel we’re there

[@knowledgebyte]

Nice piece of kit and nicely handled. Thanks for a great video experience.

[@stresswes]

Good vid, thanks for the demo.✈️🚁

[@Charles53412]

You may also like the Cirrus Vision Jet if you have never flown one. A lot of fun for such a small jet ! I am a Cessna Citation fan, but have come to like the Beechcraft Premier 1A and the Bombardier G7500. I'm not picky either when it comes to flight decks. A Collins Pro 21 or a Garmin G3k are my preferred decks though.

[@nickpapagiorgio5056]

The cirrus vision especially the improved G2 model is an AMAZING aircraft with more tech than some much bigger private jets that are 3x the money or more. The ballistic parachute system and fully automated landing system are just two things in that amazing plane and one of the first aircraft to come standard with the garmin 3000 avionics package. Also if you like the premier 1/1A jets which I also do then check out premier1drivers KZbin channel he has dozens of videos in his premier 1 Beechcraft flying all over the US and they are all recent within the past few years. Amazing channel and pilot imo!

[@hughmarloweverest1684]

Very nice and informative, thank you.

[@preparedbleach1815]

Mark is a good guy. Glad you got to fly Echo alpha. He has had it for a while now.

[@cosmodog4845]

Fantastic, thanks guys.

[@azcharlie2009]

Geez, Matt!! How the heck do you get to fly all these cool airplanes?

[@MattsAviationChannel]

So very cool! 😎✈️👍

[@gbsorenson]

Love the Eclipse jet! Great video, a lot of good piloty stuff!

[@MixrMan712]

Its so cool when I can see my home airport and A&P school at KISM on a popular youtube channel!

[@jimbarrofficial]

Just the ambient sound of this aircraft is futuristic. Damn, I wish I had a solid reason to purchase one (the money would be nice too...).

[@Ok-551]

Flew in a buddies down in Santiago Chile and it was awesome. We flew south and landed at an uncontrolled airfield next to a volcano.

[@CanadianGrenadian]

Thanks for this

[@jagtman]

Enjoyed this one Matt

[@frankb3178]

Would have liked a walk-around of the outside of plane and a pan view of interior while empty. Details of readouts was very well done. Pilot's knees up on panel is worse than commercial passenger experience in a cramped 737! I enjoy all your videos.

[@kylejohnson779]

12:00 I was very distracted by Hakuna Matata, jasmine, jafar, and piglet

[@Keithj136]

Great flying Matt. 👍

[@n1msu]

Awesome! Thanks for posting.

[@georgedoolittle9015]

Anti-lock brakes! What a revolution!

[@andyhughes1776]

I followed the development of the Eclipse back in the mid-1990's. Awesome jet. It's a shame that the developers abandoned the company after producing only a few. It's ahead of its time and should be produced again.

[@sammalone6714]

it appears they restarted production in May 2023. Two planes were delivered in 2023.

[@valuedhumanoid6574]

Amazing little scooter. A Bonanza with jet engines. For sure! lol

[@baomao7243]

If more doctors were pilots and charged even more … this would be the new doctor killer.

[@The_Flying_Mechanic]

Crazy cool! Looks a little cramped lol

[@cageordie]

Jets are a different world. 450 pph at FL300 is 67 gph? For a jet it's great, but for a piston pilot it's like someone knocked a hole in the fuel tank and the fuel is just pouring out. However, it's still my favorite small jet, so much better than a Cirrus VisionJet.

[@DanFrederiksen]

You have to have one, Matt :) it's just better than anything else. Personal Wings says there are parts for them. Just get one with modest time, you don't want to pay for 2 new engines. Nor overhaul.

[@DanFrederiksen]

Are you considering an Eclipse? if its mileage is as good or better than a Baron 58 it's pretty good considering the speed and size. It's a very different experience. It doesn't have a lavatory but neither does a baron or bonanza. It's pretty cool. But I see the prices are still high. They cost significantly more than they cost new 15 years ago. Which is disappointing. Million seems like minimum price. I guess people like them.

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

A dollar ain't worth what it used to be, 15 years ago.

[@DanFrederiksen]

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 apparently a 15 year old plane is tho

[@thierryvt]

man you get to do all the cool things. Very nice plane

[@chrisdaniel1339]

The Eclipse 500 is a pretty impressive jet, how does it compare in size and performance to a Beechcraft Premier?

[@sammalone4988]

The Mazda Miata of jets.

[@clarencewiles963]

Thumbs up 👍 thank you for sharing this!

[@nickpapagiorgio5056]

Absolutely beautiful little jet! I’m kinda confused because the cirrus vision jet has to be smaller than that and is also a certified jet so how is that one the smallest? Very cool aircraft btw! Just thought the sj50 would be the smallest or atleast smaller than that on the list. I’m guessing the vision is considered more in the personal jet category than private? If someone knows that answer please lmk! Also I love the panel set up on that! Very cool video Matt as usual!

[@reason6835]

I think they mean the Eclipse is the smallest twin engine jet.

[@nickpapagiorgio5056]

@@reason6835 thank you that makes sense!

[@Democrazyandfreespeechfirst]

I am sure they meant the first smallest certified personal jet. The Eclipse was first before the Cirrus. Great totally underrated jet. The Eclipse jet. Awesome airplane.

[@nickpapagiorgio5056]

@@Democrazyandfreespeechfirst Yes I love small personal jets and I almost forgot about the eclipse 500 they also came out with a few 550s that came with an improved avionics package I would love to see one of those as well! It’s too bad the company that made these beauties folded during the 2008 recession.

[@Democrazyandfreespeechfirst]

@@nickpapagiorgio5056 yes great airplanes. They where ahead of it’s time, when they came out. And their marketing had some issues that made it heavy to trust in the whole program. Those mistakes led to fail also. Of course you are right. At the wrong time starting a great awesome jet. Totally underrated and misunderstood by this time. I guess the target group of pilots where also afraid of the modern complex glass cockpit by then. Today we can see, how actual and modern and right this plane was back then. Still today a very interesting jet for reasonable low money, compared to what you get.

[@cougarlove8542]

I wonder the difference (other than price) of the 550.

[@UncleKennysPlace]

That's smaller than a Vision?

[@FinkelBlog]

I believe it was said or implied that it's the smallest twin-engine jet, not smaller than the single-engine Vision Jet.

[@gewglesux]

is that the Honda?

[@torybng]

Hakuna Matata, Jazmine, Jafar, Piglet.........nice routing

[@flyingwithchrist2440]

I live near Valdosta, ga

[@joelapp]

When was this flight?

[@MarcBossYT]

Cool

[@kevinp8108]

At 01:39...did the controller tell the guys TO EAT SHIT???

[@UnusualPilot]

I had to listen to this very closely like four times, but I think he said you have a beach jet in the pattern

[@UnusualPilot]

it sounds like to me one plane was leaving a controlled frequency and going to descend into the pattern of another airport, and no longer has/Needs flight following, so the controller handed him off to the Unicom frequency of that airport, and probably told him to squawk 1200 VFR however, as a common courtesy, sometimes the controllers will tell you about the traffic in the pattern at the untowerd airport you’re about to come into

[@futurepilot4u91]

sooo nobodies going to mention him overspeeding the aircraft at 17:43??? time for an airframe inspection????

[@flywiththomas]

For a 2-3 knot overspeed?

[@reason6835]

No biggie.

[@g35driver18]

Can a single person pilot this jet?

[@Chabooli]

No… you have to have a hot girlfriend 😂😂😂

[@M158-o3x]

Great video - Question, does a video camera/Go Pro in the middle of the windscreen limit or interfere with vision especially for the operating pilot who is landing the aircraft?

[@jackoneil3933]

Pretty cool when you figure it goes 400mph at 6mpg, a Baron goes 200mph at about 8mpg, a Cessna 210 about 180mph at 10mpg, and a 501 Citation about 360mph at 1mpg.

[@reason6835]

We need this airplane for Microsoft Flight Sim.

[@wanderer5200]

Huntsville, Alabama! Home of U.S. Space Camp!

[@raymopolo3324]

How far can this jet fly (km)?

[@emmo_93]

About 2000km

[@raymopolo3324]

Thanks ! 😊

[@natetallman]

Why do you not wear sunglasses?

[@edgarwideman737]

Great video, but your audio is clipping really really bad!

[@anthonyrstrawbridge]

It was👍🏾fun

[@flyboy98]

Still can't figure out why the Eclipse Jet didn't sell well?

[@tmpendergrass]

They sold them too cheap and went out of business

[@CDB1952]

Some Silicon Valley executives thought their success in tech ventures indicated they were smarter than aviation executives. The results were the largest failure in General Aviation history.

[@brgllc201]

I was surprised that the Cirrus founder couldn't make it work. One of my favorite jets.

[@athr_blu]

Hakuna, Matata, Jasmine, Jafar, Piglet 🤣🤭

[@rauleli]

4:16 a romantic moment? lol

[@clayATC1202]

Mach .5 ☠️ ruin every controller’s sequence, but at least most of the smaller jet pilots are well aware of the limitations and ready for vectors 😅

[@rickdc3]

Vmo is 285. Flies arrivals faster than a Mustang, Phenom 100, or Honda Jet.

[@Damianthelovetour2024]

Bro check out Dennis combs he has lots of hours in this fantastic pilot Love your content

[@P51]

why only hand fly to FL280?

[@EnterpriseCV]

RVSM requirements. Must use autopilot so they can use 1000 feet separation between opposite direction traffic.

[@Micg51]

My airline let’s you handfly past that, but no one would ever do that

[@stevendouglas8144]

Hey! My home airport, KHSV!

[@lynwoodjones]

🤗

[@jerryuma]

I researched this airplane. I don’t believe it is safe. The company ran out of money and it is no longer made anymore. The is also something about an FAA issue, so I would not fly in one these airplanes.

[@brika2044]

Turn into Airbnb

[@name_dropper8112]

I want one...

[@thierryvt]

I don't, not really. But I'd love to rent one once or twice a year to go flying somewhere sunny.

[@dcsnzauspilotmissionchanne657]

Over speeding and publicising it.. good job

[@michaelfraser5723]

carbon minus jets, the future

[@michaelfraser5723]

Boring for passengers. hearing all that tech stuff

[@michaelfraser5723]

but they have iphones haha

[@baomao7243]

Passengers are cargo - just don’t tell them that !