(upbeat music)
- Praetor 500, that's sound like new name to me.
(intense drumming)
- Welcome onboard.
- I like this.
Look a this.
Beautifully done.
(drumming)
- Today I'll be the captain for our flight
from Punta Cana to Fort Lauderdale.
(drumming over pilot speaking)
(intense drumming)
- I have my name on the menu.
This is so luxury.
So quiet on this plane.
- It's a social jet for the social age.
- It's $16,995,000.
(Sam laughs)
How creative the Embraer Praetor 500.
See this.
(intense drumming)
Bossa nova, what a theme.W
(energetic piano music)
Hello, good morning.
- Morning Sam.
We're gonna leave Punta Cana and head to Miami
on our lazy graze Praetor 500,
Embraer's mid-sized jet.
(soft piano music)
- Hi Sam, welcome onboard our new Praetor 500.
- Wow, this is the new cabin.
I like this, look at this.
It smells brand new.
Brand new aeroplane.
And it's a lot wider, actually.
It's really, really comfortable here.
Beautifully done.
Very, very upscale.
(rhumba music)
- Hi, my name is Eduardo Camiliere.
I'm a test pilot for Embraer.
Today I'll be the captain for our flight
from Punta Cana to Fort Lauderdale.
And we have a route already set up here
in the cockpit.
We're gonna be flying at 43,000 feet.
The weather is nice.
Winds are also helping us in the direction of Florida.
And I hope everybody on board has a really nice time.
I'm here with my fellow captain Louis Sogado.
He's one of Embraer pilots as me.
And we're flying today the Praetor 500.
This aeroplane is one of the most modern aeroplanes
in the market.
It's a full fly-by-wire aeroplane.
We don't have a yoke.
We fly side sticks.
We have a full set of huge,
beautiful, colourful displays.
And all these displays we can put our charts
for flying.
We have our informations that we use
for basic flying.
We have our flight plan down here.
We even see the synodic pages
that we can see all of our systems,
how they are working.
So this is the best you can get
in the market today.
- I literally have the whole jet to myself,
but there are just a few more passengers
tagging along with me.
So this is Alisa.
Alisa's from Embraer.
And this is Jay.
So they are riding together with me.
Also I have Tiago here,
so they're all Embraer experts.
They're riding with me and showing off
this brand new Praetor 500
with just 14 hours on the clock.
It literally flew in from the factory
brand new from Brazil to here.
- Morning, my name is Pam.
You're onboard the Praetor 500.
Today we're going from Punta Cana to Fort Lauderdale.
Our flight time's about two hours and 22 minutes,
about that time.
I just wanna give you a safety briefing.
We have two entry,
emergency exits,
the door that came through
and the one that's over the toilet.
Your life vests are located behind your ankles.
In the incident of a loss of oxygen pressurisation,
your oxygen masks will drop from here.
We have a light breakfast for you.
Any questions?
- [Sam] No, ready to go.
- Okay, let's go.
(upbeat techno music)
(plane engines revving)
(engine noise over pilots checking systems)
- Check.
(aeroplane engine)
(upbeat techno music)
- Sam, do you mind?
I'm gonna set your table for a light breakfast.
- No, sure.
(table clicks)
(upbeat music)
Thank you.
Look at that.
(upbeat music)
I am so amazed.
I have my name on the menu
and look at, it's beautiful like
I was ready for a treat.
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
It goes really flat.
Incredible, incredible.
(clicking)
(upbeat techno music)
Cheers, guys.
- Sam, let me help you move forward.
- Okay.
Ah, I see.
Thank you.
(smooth jazz music)
I'm just showing you how creative
the Embraer Praetor can be.
We can turn all the seats facing sideways like this.
How nice this is.
- So Sam, we're halfway to Fort Lauderdale now.
How do you feel about the Praetor 500
and your experience so far?
- You know what Jay?
This is the best experience
of a mid-sized private jet I ever have
because the cabin is wider,
much wider that a typical mid-sized jet.
And best of all, it's so quiet on this plane, you know?
Really, really good experience.
Really comfortable.
- Praetor 500 is a 3,250 nautical mile aeroplane.
As you mention, the comfort that you experience
is because it's the widest aircraft.
Actually, the closest competitor
is five inches narrower on the shoulders
and seven at the floor, the flat floor.
Six foot stand up cabin.
With 5,800 foot cabin altitude pressure
at 45,000 feet,
our bodies only feel like we're at 5,800,
which allows us to have less cabin fatigue.
It's a social jet for the social age,
I like to say.
We do have connectivity.
Not only the overland Wifi capabilities,
but KA band as an option,
first for the mid-sized jet category.
- The nice thing about this plane is,
it's a mid-sized jet for mid-sized budgets and cost.
However, it gives you a feeling about this is actually
wider so it feels like you paid for something
better than the mid-sized jet, right?
- Absolutely.
- And Jay, I wanna ask you like how much a jet
like this cost?
- This aircraft is 16,995
so almost 17 million well-equipped.
- I like the way you say it, 16,995.
It's $16,995,000, right?
- That's right.
- Oh my gosh.
So if I give you $17 million, I get $5 back.
- That's right.
- Okay.
- As long as you give me even bills,
I'll give you the five back.
- So this is the bathroom on the Praetor 500.
It's also pretty volume and spacious.
I'm telling you for a mid-sized jet,
don't think about the plane,
but a mid-sized jet to have a dedicated bathroom like this,
this is luxury.
- We talked earlier about the social jet,
or social media jet.
And I just happen to have your YouTube channel up here.
You know, served
from our Wifi system. - Oh my gosh, you do.
- And the nice thing is we have
Homelife Entertainment so through Apple TV,
I'm able to put the presentation up
onto the monitor.
The chair turns all the way around and create--
- Look up.
- Hey, Tiago, Alisa. - Hey, Jay.
- How are you, see?
- [Sam] Can I do this?
- Do it.
- Oh my gosh.
So fast, this is amazing.
Now I turn into a 360 like this.
Oh my gosh.
- So, a social has now given us social opportunity,
no matter where you sit on the aeroplane.
- So this is the back seat here.
What I like about this one is,
it's not cramped.
There's a lot of room.
'Cause see this.
And you can still recline all the way.
So there's actually even if you're sitting back,
it can be really comfortable seat.
It's not a bad seat at all.
- Sam, I'm gonna show you how we berth these seats
into a full sleeper.
(jazzy music)
- All right.
Nice.
(smooth jazz music)
(engine noise over Eduardo and Sam speaking)
- [Sam] Very, very easy.
Very easy.
(smooth jazz music)
- We're gonna land on this airport right here,
the Fort Lauderdale International Airport.
This is the approach chart that we're gonna
fly to land in Fort Lauderdale.
And you can see here,
it also has a depiction of our position in the chart
so he's gonna bring us around here,
turn us in and then we'll land here.
(smooth jazz music)
(clicking)
(aeroplane engine)
(aeroplane touches down)
(jazz music)
- That was a great flight.
- 'Kay, Sam.
Now we're excited to show you the Praetor 600.
Come on inside.
(smooth jazz music)
- With this interior being called the bossa nova,
what does that really mean?
Of course, it's a form of music
that became very famous and--
complicated, rich interior.
But really, it's about the Americas coming together,
North America and South America.
And what can you do with that kind of power?
Well the bossa nova.
When translated, it means new trend or new wave.
So what we've captured now are two Americas
finally giving the best they have
for a single purpose.
And that's creating the ultimate, crafted,
stylized interior in the ultimate
super mid-sized jet with the Praetor 600.
(jazz music)
- What a beautiful jet.
Look at this interior.
It has the x factor and bossa nova,
what a theme.
- And we have the ability to keep
a 105 degree seating angle
while at the same time when berthing
the cushions it flattens out.
And then the cushions fall back
into the hold and create
the bed.
- [Sam] Wow.
- So you could have somebody sitting,
somebody laying.
- I like the greatness about the business jet.
It's not like the airline travel.
You can customise the jets
to the way you want.
You can decide and you can literally
have your own airline design.
If I ever gonna run my own airline,
Air Sam Chui,
I know what the interior will be like.
(jazz music)