The INSANE Cost To Own A Honda Private Jet

In this video, Greg a Honda jet owner takes us through the process of buying, operating and getting the type-rating certification to fly a Honda jet.

[loko]

bro picked the absolute worst place to record the audio for this video

[paulhoover]

Very interesting, too bad about the audio

[BopperNoStopper]

Highly recommend a Dead Cat filter for your mic, it really reduces the wind noise

[triedproven]

Sounds like you need a quarter billion to get started comfortably. And you'll burn 1% of that just to touch the bird.

[TheBarzook]

You have to compare the costs for the same trip, not for the same period of time. One hour in the jet will get you maybe 400 nm away while 2 hours in the 22T will only gonna get you 250 nm away.

[rse]

The Part 135 will be irrelevant to most people. This airplane will be flown mostly Part 91. That is all the pilots I have met that fly the Honda Jet. True...there may be some that need to fly as Part 135. But, even if you are an employee of private company (as in a non-charter non-aviation company), you'll fly Part 91. To get around Part 135 "ownership", put the plane into an LLC or a Trust where that is the owner and not you. Now you can fly part 135 with "your plane".

[johnwisniewski]

That was one of the most thorough plain economics video I have ever seen. Awesome.

[TheSchwartzIsWithYouToday]

Sadly, I can't understand much of what he's saying. Most lav mics are omnidirectional and are best used when you're inside in a quiet area. If you want to be capturing audio outside, you need a noise-cancelling mic that's unidirectional, meaning it has a cardioid or super-cardioid pickup pattern. Mostly they're going to hand-held or head-mounted because they have sharp off-axis noise rejection -- like the mics pilots wear when they're flying. TIP: Sabinetek makes some small Bluetooth mics, the SmartMic+, that have built-in omni mics, but there's a unidirectional element you can plug into it and they work fairly well. Get a pair and you can plug one into your camera and put the other one on the person you're interviewing -- one works as a transmitter and the other as a receiver. Or use both to connect with their software and you can interview someone and capture one mic in the left channel and the other in the right channel of the audio or video.

Another solution would be to get a handheld shotgun mic, like what news reporters use when they're doing outdoors on-the-spot reporting. They're highly directional and some are designed to plug right into cameras. You can also get a transmitter and receiver combo for some that will let you work wirelessly.

[MarcPagan]

Yep - any jet has a higher cost per trip than a piston or most turbo-props.
That said, the Honda sure looks like a fun jet to fly.

But, sitting in the back, it's not that much more comfy than a refurbed pressurized Cessna Centurion,
....at a fraction of the operating cost.

[kailexx]

The new Honda Echelon jet will be cross-type rated with the Honda Elite jet. One type rating to rule them all.

[vincem]

Can someone explain why a pilot can't fly their own aircraft for profit? I thought that how it works.

[WhiteAndNerdy]

As fantastic as the Honda is, now I can understand the appeal of the Piaggio P.180!!! Comparable performance without as much hassle or crazy expense! Yeah, I know. Still not "cheap" at all, but a good bit better at least!

[garysheppard]

When you study video the first thing they teach you is that people will watch a video with poor visuals but they'll turn off if it has poor sound.
Case in point...

[kevinmorr]

This was great. This guy is a great interview. Love the insight

[versatec]

Cost to own any jet...LOTS+LOTS...Thats all she wrote folks! 😅

[DanFrederiksen]

So much could be better. It's smeared in so much artificial difficulty. I inquired with pratt and whitney about the engine that the 1600kg Eclipse uses which is the smallest turbofan in production, half the size of the Williams on the Visionjet. They wanted 911k$ a piece for a series production, not a one off. It's a step up from a turbo in a car and they wanted a cool million for it. It's simpler than a piston engine. I knew the piston engine makers in GA were the problem but turns out the turbine guys are much worse.
If someone actually did smaller turbofan engines at way more reasonable price and a plane would be made as a single piece carbon fiber fuselage instead of the complexity of riveted sheet then everyone could have twin jets. If you imagine a lancair or sr22 or bonanza sized sleek light plane with two jets that could retail profitably for 100k if done right and for series production. Let's say the volumes Cirrus sells. Close to 10x cheaper than a Cirrus SR22T and twice as fast with double the fuel economy. And no fear of engine replacement cost and it would last the life of the plane anyway.

[ImNotADeeJay]

gee... I was almost decided to buy one, but after watching this, I am having cold feet

[RealityTrailers]

So the reason for the massive windy sounds was for more realism, right? Other than that...

[ernestowendenburg]

It absolutely opened my eyes! I better charter than own my own plane that I can’t pilot 😂😂😂

[josue_kay]

Mostly a great interview of the wind 👍