Baronpilot244
Killick Stoker
What a sweet airplane to fly! Flew serial number 283 to Nashville from PDK this morning and the salesman offered me the left seat. Very cool!
It's a busy little bird though and 200 knots is very easily obtained. I held 140KIAS out of PDK and saw a climb rate of 1600fpm - nice! Descending into Nashville pulled the power back to about 200 pounds of torque and 1000 fpm which kept me nicely at 200 KIAS once I leveled off I was able to put in a notch of flaps and then dropped the gear which gave me 120.
90 KIAS on the approach with landing flaps and the prop full forward was also easy and it handles beautifully. Landing is a non-event, you just fly in an almost level to slightly nose up attitude holding enough power to maintain 90kts and once you're in ground effect you chop the power and hold it off. No need to use reverse as you're pretty quickly below 60 kts so its really just a case of going into Beta and using that to slow down as well as maintain a decent speed while taxiing.
With full flaps on the approach it takes on a pretty pronounced nose down attitude which gives you a decent view of the runway. The controls felt nice and light - I would say they were only a little heavier than the Baron and maybe about the same as the C340.
This one is the 700C2 which has a better useful load than the earlier 700's. I thought I would need to be more agressive with rudder on takeoff but it really wasn't that bad, it has a neat rudder trim switch on the yoke and a mark on the trim indicator for takeoff. The trick is to remember to trim it out when you nose over for cruise.
The Boss is seriously thinking about getting one of these if a few deals come together. I hope we do!
Flying this back to PDK this afternoon and then Columbia SC in the C340 on Wednesday then back to Nashville Thursday - things are picking up.
Bp244
It's a busy little bird though and 200 knots is very easily obtained. I held 140KIAS out of PDK and saw a climb rate of 1600fpm - nice! Descending into Nashville pulled the power back to about 200 pounds of torque and 1000 fpm which kept me nicely at 200 KIAS once I leveled off I was able to put in a notch of flaps and then dropped the gear which gave me 120.
90 KIAS on the approach with landing flaps and the prop full forward was also easy and it handles beautifully. Landing is a non-event, you just fly in an almost level to slightly nose up attitude holding enough power to maintain 90kts and once you're in ground effect you chop the power and hold it off. No need to use reverse as you're pretty quickly below 60 kts so its really just a case of going into Beta and using that to slow down as well as maintain a decent speed while taxiing.
With full flaps on the approach it takes on a pretty pronounced nose down attitude which gives you a decent view of the runway. The controls felt nice and light - I would say they were only a little heavier than the Baron and maybe about the same as the C340.
This one is the 700C2 which has a better useful load than the earlier 700's. I thought I would need to be more agressive with rudder on takeoff but it really wasn't that bad, it has a neat rudder trim switch on the yoke and a mark on the trim indicator for takeoff. The trick is to remember to trim it out when you nose over for cruise.
The Boss is seriously thinking about getting one of these if a few deals come together. I hope we do!
Flying this back to PDK this afternoon and then Columbia SC in the C340 on Wednesday then back to Nashville Thursday - things are picking up.
Bp244
