The Vision Jet is the first personal jet to carry such a Gogo system.
Meanwhile, a switch in the cockpit allows the pilot to turn off the Wi-Fi in order to manage data usage and prevent distractions. The Avance 元 does not support streaming of video.īergwall said Gogo is planning to provide special data rate packages to kick off the new service. Meanwhile, passengers can be surfing the web. Bergwall says the connection helps him stay up with work while traveling and has been helpful in scheduling quick turns with FBOs, making rental car and hotel reservations, and also ordering food via Uber Eats, DoorDash, and others to be waiting for him at the FBO when he lands. In flight, I chose the Gogo Wi-Fi network on my phone and was soon texting with family and friends while a steady stream of emails came in.
Once found, the handoff to the next tower occurs. One of the two belly-mounted antennas locks onto the strongest signal it can find while the other antenna begins searching for the next strongest signal along the route. Because of weight, size, and cost considerations, such systems have been the purview of much larger aircraft, but the Avance 元 is small and light enough to be practical for the G2+.Īfter takeoff, the system begins searching for Gogo cellular towers configured to be looking up for aircraft signals. The Wi-Fi relies on the Gogo Avance 元 system’s airborne cellular network to deliver LTE-level internet access in flight for everything from email and texting to catching up on the news. While the takeoff improvement is standard on the G2+, the new Wi-Fi system is optional. After five minutes, an Alert message is activated. If the pilot doesn’t reduce the thrust to the Climb setting within two minutes, an Advisory message will appear on the avionics display. The pilot simply advances the thrust lever to the takeoff position and the FADEC does the rest. Our demonstration flights on a hot June day out of Frederick Municipal Airport in Maryland at 309 feet msl were not so dramatic, but the G2+ definitely left the ground more quickly than earlier models during flights from the same runway. A flight departing Santa Fe, New Mexico, on a 31-degree Celsius day at MTOW with a 10-knot headwind will use about 3,000 feet of runway compared to the current book performance of 4,100 feet, according to Cirrus.
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