The HJet by Marwan Gharib and FlightFx is something I purchased months ago, flew a couple of flights with it and then got distracted by everything else going on and forgot about it. Fast forward to now and I’m back in the latest edition of the sleek and diminuative business jet and I am absolutely loving my time with it. In this Flight Journal I take the HJet on a flight from London Airport located in southwestern Ontario, Canada over to New York Stewart International Airport located just to the north of New York City. Here’s the adventure!

CYXU London departure

Fsimstudios and Orbx released CYXU London International airport some time ago on the Orbx Store. I bought it in a recent sale but hadn’t had a chance to really look around it. I decided that today was the right day to take the HJet out for a little flight from this airport. It’s nicely detailed and accurate to the real world version as I’ve visited the airport several times now for the award winning Skydrive Airshow London.

Weather conditions were low clouds at 3,000 feet and light winds. The cloud layer was not thick as I learned after taxiing runway 15 and taking to the skies in the HJet. We punched through the clouds and were flying into the clear blue skies in just seconds thanks, in part, to the jet’s zippy climb performance.

The cruise

Following the waypoints, our route took us south to the shores of Lake Erie before setting course for London. I did have a weird problem with one of the waypoints as it was taking us away from the course that I wanted and so I went into the G3000’s nav panel and adjusted the route sending us back onto course.

Climbing up to 35,000 feet for our cruise, the onboard TCAS (traffic collision avoidance system) warned us about a nearby airplane. ATC warned us about a nearby aircraft and, sure enough, it passed beneath us showing both visually and on the TCAS display in the G3000.

Descent into KSWF New York Stewart International Airport

Flying over a mostly cloudy New York State, the clouds briefly parted before closing in ahead and just in time for a descent into my destination. Fortunately, the HJet is well equipped to handle these conditions with automatic icing protection (which came on during the descent), synthetic vision, and the usual array of navigational aids.

Visibility of the airport came into sight with just a few hundred feet to go. I am pretty pleased with this landing as I was lined up on the localizer and guided onto the runway by a combination of factors with visual confirming the last few hundred feet. A smooth landing!

Then it was a brief taxi over to the civilian side of the airport (its also an Air National Guard base) and parked in front of the original airport terminal.

A ton of fun with this little jet. Look for the full review coming in just a few days!