Chapter 1
Fatigue
Harsher than its type
How short were its legs?
Utilization isn’t graded for N500PT: too few of its flights were tracked to count its use fairly, in the full report too. So its free chapter here is Fatigue, which doesn’t depend on catching every flight.
Short legs put more pressurization cycles on the structure for the same time in the air. Worth checking its cycle-based inspection limits before a pre-buy.
Hours per landingLead measure. 17th percentile
Middle 1.5N500PT0.53+1.2 : 1middle Falcon 50 1.5 : 1
Short hops49th percentile
Middle 37%N500PT0%80%+36%middle Falcon 50 37%
Leg length35th percentile
Middle 465 nmN500PT100 nm1,200 nm+375 nmmiddle Falcon 50 465 nm