Training and Workforce
FlightSafety’s ‘Mustang 101’
Fred Furth has been flying since 1959 and has more than 8,000 hours in jets.

Fred Furth has been flying since 1959 and has more than 8,000 hours in jets. But before he could take delivery of his new Citation Mustang in May, he had to get type rated like everyone else. Furth, who owns and pilots a Citation X and a Caravan, has been to FlightSafety International 40 times. You might think that such an experienced pilot would breeze through “Mustang 101.” Not so.

Furth marveled at the simplicity of the Mustang’s Garmin G1000 avionics suite but noted the differences between it and the more complex Collins Pro Line 21 system in his Citation X and was frank about his initial difficulties with the Garmin system. “Midway through this course I was scrambling as hard as anybody else,” he said. “But then you come to a point where you understand it.”

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