Chapter 1
Fatigue
Harsher than its type
How short were its legs?
Utilization isn’t graded for XB-LVS: 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. 19th percentile
Middle 1.4XB-LVS0.52.5+1.1 : 1middle Learjet 45 1.4 : 1
Short hops79th percentile
Middle 37%XB-LVS0%90%+51%middle Learjet 45 37%
Leg length13th percentile
Middle 431 nmXB-LVS100 nm1,000 nm+260 nmmiddle Learjet 45 431 nm
How its legs split
Share of XB-LVS’s legs by length, nm, in the twelve months