Embraer Phenom 100

Embraer Phenom 100

Telltale orange racks hold flight-test equipment in this forward looking view of the cockpit.

It's easy to see Embraer's Oval Lite cabin shape in the photo above, as the sidewalls extend more or less straight down from the maximum width point rather than circling back in at your feet as a normal cylindrical fuselage does.

Note how few switches there are in the Phenom 100 cockpit, and nearly all have an automatic position and remain there even when conducting the before takeoff checklist and at shutdown. The three big flat-glass displays of the Garmin system are identical and can be swapped into any location for maximum dispatch flexibility. The cockpit is "dark and quiet" as you can see here, meaning that during any normal operation, or at critical times such as takeoff, no annunciator lights are on and no warning tones or alerts are issued.

Power for the Phenom 100 come from a pair of Pratt & Whitney Canada PW617F-E turbofans rated at 1,695 pounds' thrust each.

The airplane flown for this report was the first production unit and was used extensively in flight test development. Its aerodynamics, systems and avionics status conformed to the Phenoms being delivered. All performance data here is from the airplane manual and reflects standard day conditions at sea level, unless noted. Weights are for a typical airplane in standard configuration.