VLJ Training--What Will be Required

If there's a VLJ jet in your future, then you probably have some interest in what it will take to be properly trained in one so that you can fly it safely. I'll show you the preliminary results of one survey, but first I have to mention that while I was attending an FAA meeting in Oklahoma City last week, I overheard two people talking about whether there should be any special training mandated for VLJ's. Both were people whose names you'd recognize and both know a lot about about jets. They quickly agreed that VLJ's were just jets, and that no special training--other than what you'd normally get for a jet--was required or should be mandated.

A group called the International VLJ Training Stakeholder's Discussion Group has posted an online survey that...