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Pick up a copy of Flight Sim and you can fly the King Air all day--left seat, too! :drool::insane::laff:
 
PA44-LUV said:
Exactly what that poor private pilot was thinking when his kingair pilot up and died on him in the plane last year.
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I believe the quote from a pilot that was interviewed for Reader's Digest was that the King Air was one of the most difficult planes in the world to fly...
 
msmspilot said:
I believe the quote from a pilot that was interviewed for Reader's Digest was that the King Air was one of the most difficult planes in the world to fly...
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Having flown a King Air for several months I can tell you this is not true. It's easier to fly a B200 than a Cessna 310.
 
esa17 said:
Having flown a King Air for several months I can tell you this is not true. It's easier to fly a B200 than a Cessna 310.
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hvaing flown both, I agree 100%. Most turbines are easier to fly that pistion aircraft. One notable exception is the MU-2.
 
PA44-LUV said:
Exactly what that poor private pilot was thinking when his kingair pilot up and died on him in the plane last year.
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Interesting point.

Boris: If that situation had played out on an MU2 vs. a King Air would the guy have crashed and everyone dies, or would the PPL have been able to land the airplane?
 
WacoFan said:
Interesting point.

Boris: If that situation had played out on an MU2 vs. a King Air would the guy have crashed and everyone dies, or would the PPL have been able to land the airplane?
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Interesting question. The King Air is easier to fly than the MU-2 and engine failure by a trained pilot is easier to deal with in the King Air. Fuel management would be another issue on the MU-2 also.

They both could be landed by a good private pilot if nothing went wrong and fuel management wasn't an issue.

The MU-2 is so quirky that the FAA created a SFAR just for MU-2 pilots. Mitsibishi is also buying back all the MU-2 data plates to get them out of service..
 
mshunter said:
And just ehre have you been? Good to see ya back.
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Temporary lapse of short term memory. Happens. I can't pay attention to anything much lately and frequenting aviation boards seems to increase my willingness to suddenly jump in front of busses and trains and fat females. How are things with you?

Gliderboy: It always sucks if you have to hide your identity from your fellow pilots. It's a very small world and JC houses a lot of the people you run into, out there, where ze aeroplanes zing around. I'd think about that, before speaking up for the SJS gang... ;)
 
WacoFan said:
Boris: If that situation had played out on an MU2 vs. a King Air would the guy have crashed and everyone dies, or would the PPL have been able to land the airplane?
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I think it was day VFR, yeah? I'd say the odds would still be way on his side. Maybe something more like 90% than the 98% I'd give him in the old Flying Barn Door. The only slightly dangerous thing I can think of is the combination of the fact that it lands much, much faster than what he's used to and the engines don't sound any different at different power settings. I have heard of this causing some low-speed type excursions with low time guys new to the type. Still, on a pretty day (and assuming nothing else goes wrong), I'd bet on a normally competent private pilot being able to put it on a long runway without killing anyone, particularly if he's getting guidance from someone familiar. IMHO, etc etc.
 
Boris Badenov said:
I think it was day VFR, yeah? I'd say the odds would still be way on his side. Maybe something more like 90% than the 98% I'd give him in the old Flying Barn Door. The only slightly dangerous thing I can think of is the combination of the fact that it lands much, much faster than what he's used to and the engines don't sound any different at different power settings. I have heard of this causing some low-speed type excursions with low time guys new to the type. Still, on a pretty day (and assuming nothing else goes wrong), I'd bet on a normally competent private pilot being able to put it on a long runway without killing anyone, particularly if he's getting guidance from someone familiar. IMHO, etc etc.
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Just make sure the gear gets put down. :D
 
esa17 said:
Having flown a King Air for several months I can tell you this is not true. It's easier to fly a B200 than a Cessna 310.
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I haven't flown the King Air, but that's what I've heard. I can't find the article, but I remember laughing at the guy who was supposedly a very experienced pilot, holding a King Air manual outside a J-3, with the quote about how hard a King Air is to fly.

It has a thick manual, it must be hard...;)
 
Boris Badenov said:
Still, on a pretty day (and assuming nothing else goes wrong), I'd bet on a normally competent private pilot being able to put it on a long runway without killing anyone, particularly if he's getting guidance from someone familiar. IMHO, etc etc.
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And there in lies the trick. Its a whole lot easier to find someone with some kind of King Air experience than MU2 experience. Of course in the case cited I think they were only reading from books and had no one on hand with time in either type so it might not make a difference either way.
 
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