Fitting in the B1900

jtrain609 said:
YOUR MOTHER WAS A TRAMP!!!

:)

I love everything Beechcraft has ever produced. The King Air, and everything related to it, is a true pilots airplane. Easy to operate while being fun to fly. I mean sure you can brag about flying the MU-2 or the Metro, and about how you don't need autofeather because you had NTS, and about how the Metro can't carry any ice, and oh yeah you'd better not to turn the inlet heat on before hitting icing conditions or the engine is going to eat itself, and by the way the nose gear steering system in the Metro might just decide to go tango uniform at any point in time, OR you could be reading the latest edition of Hustler at cruise in a King Air while not having to worry about what's going to go wrong next.
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Most of those are just old wives tales. The metro really isn't that bad in icing conditions. Like with any aircraft that doesn't have bleed heat pumping through the leading edge, it would be unwise to stay in some icing conditions very long. For the most part, you're living on borrowed time in some icing conditions with anything with booots. Things broke on the 99 just as things may break on the metro. I've tooled around in a 99 with deferred nose wheel steering. It was not nearly as bad as the metro though. We always joke about this or that aircraft being the "hangar queen". But honestly, every airframe has it's issues under the conditions that they're flown under....from the 152 to the 747.
 
KLB said:
Most of those are just old wives tales. The metro really isn't that bad in icing conditions. Like with any aircraft that doesn't have bleed heat pumping through the leading edge, it would be unwise to stay in some icing conditions very long. For the most part, you're living on borrowed time in some icing conditions with anything with booots. Things broke on the 99 just as things may break on the metro. I've tooled around in a 99 with deferred nose wheel steering. It was not nearly as bad as the metro though. We always joke about this or that aircraft being the "hangar queen". But honestly, every airframe has it's issues under the conditions that they're flown under....from the 152 to the 747.
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IMS (I'd like to forget that part of my life), the 99 has nosewheel steering that involves some switch and weight on wheels. Which can of course be screwed up by some failure to calibrate properly, etc. Unlike the manly mu-2 steering which is direct and manly, as an airplane should be. Face it, ladies. Your engines are put in backwards and your airplane requires a skirt to fly. There's no shame in that, if you're in to that kind of thing. But call it what it is: A chickmobile. I'm sure there's a nice hairdresser out there who will love you like the strippers love me.
 
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