Hired! Need Pilatus study material

Those sites are great for studying. If you have specific questions feel free to PM me.

Congrats on the new gig! Very fun airplane to fly!
 
It's a fine steed. A bit "characterless", imho, but solid, reliable, and I'm told very easy to work on. As for study materials...I know everyone says this about every airplane ever made, but honestly, it's the easiest airplane I've flown since maybe a 152. It's designed for the owner/operator with 500 hours to fly alone and safely, and even look good doing it. If you can figure out the avionics, flying the airplane itself is like falling off a log. No bad habits, absurdly easy to land well, "stodgy" in both pitch and roll (particularly roll...good for IFR if you for some reason decide to turn the A/P off, which I predict will be strongly discouraged for single pilot ops, anyway). Operationally, the only thing I would say is that you might want to be more cognizant of Va than you would be in some other aircraft. The structure is very, very solid, but those huge wings are also hugely rigid, and it rides like a freaking steel girder in turbulence. When in doubt, slow down.

Do not waste time worrying about systems, etc. They're dirt simple. If you can keep your eyes open during class, you'll be fine. Congrats on the yob!
 
So this means you never have to eat my cooking again and we can bury that joke in favor of bad Pilatypus ones instead right?
 
Thanks for all the replies! The Chief just sent me a bunch of training tools and such so I'll be looking over those as well. I am excited to get to fly something that doesn't get put away in the hangar every time a cloud rolls by between November and March.

DhruvK said:
So this means you never have to eat my cooking again and we can bury that joke in favor of bad Pilatypus ones instead right?
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***Croooaaaaak***
 
Boris Badenov said:
It's a fine steed. A bit "characterless", imho, but solid, reliable, and I'm told very easy to work on. As for study materials...I know everyone says this about every airplane ever made, but honestly, it's the easiest airplane I've flown since maybe a 152. It's designed for the owner/operator with 500 hours to fly alone and safely, and even look good doing it. If you can figure out the avionics, flying the airplane itself is like falling off a log. No bad habits, absurdly easy to land well, "stodgy" in both pitch and roll (particularly roll...good for IFR if you for some reason decide to turn the A/P off, which I predict will be strongly discouraged for single pilot ops, anyway). Operationally, the only thing I would say is that you might want to be more cognizant of Va than you would be in some other aircraft. The structure is very, very solid, but those huge wings are also hugely rigid, and it rides like a freaking steel girder in turbulence. When in doubt, slow down.

Do not waste time worrying about systems, etc. They're dirt simple. If you can keep your eyes open during class, you'll be fine. Congrats on the yob!
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In the /45s from what I gather. The /47 is really light in pitch and roll.

I'll second the "slow down" part. This thing is scary when it's really rough and you're cruising downhill at the barber pole. It's easy to fly, easy to operate, easy to everything.
 
ppragman said:
In the /45s from what I gather. The /47 is really light in pitch and roll.
Watch short runways in IFR, I recall Pilatus involved Bridgeport, CT end of RW barrier incident- sea fog is biaach.

I'll second the "slow down" part. This thing is scary when it's really rough and you're cruising downhill at the barber pole. It's easy to fly, easy to operate, easy to everything.
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