This article is written in hopes that it will serve as a useful reminder about how to configure your King Air for in-flight icing encounters. If you have any significant amount of flight time in a King Air, I suppose that you have become quite comfortable with flying and handling the airplane in icing conditions.…
Due diligence, simply stated, is “examining things or people before buying or employing them.” (macmillanthesaurus.com) I’m talking about a prepurchase inspection, aka, the pre-buy. There is a lot of pushback against them, which makes no sense to me. In buying a King Air, you’re going to part with upward of a million dollars (or maybe…
Beech Aircraft Corporation tightened its grip on the twin-engine turboprop market by introducing the Model 200 Super King Air – an airplane that quickly established itself as the crown jewel of the company’s product line. Previously published in part in the Sept./Oct. 2012 issue of this magazine. In 1973 as Beech Aircraft Corporation approached the…
An old joke among pilots is that flying to anywhere in eastern Colorado is basically just a flight into western Kansas. Indeed, the eastern one-third of Colorado has more in common with Kansas and Nebraska than it does with the mountainous terrain that Colorado is famous for. What is easy to miss is the steady…
Available spots are filling up every day for the 2021 King Air Gathering (KAG) being held Sept. 23-26 at the Beechcraft Heritage Museum adjacent to the Tullahoma, Tennessee, Regional Airport (THA). If you are thinking you might like to attend, you may not want to wait much longer to register as space is limited. If…
Have you ever seen this procedure described? I hope your answer is “Yes,” since it is the title of a procedure presented in the Pilot’s Operating Handbook (POH). Quiz time: In what POH section will you find it? Section 3, Emergency Procedure? Section 3A, Abnormal Procedures? Or Section 4, Normal Procedures? I will wager that…
In its ongoing quest to develop improved versions of the highly successful King Air platform, Beech Aircraft Corporation once again dipped into its “recipe” book and blended the best of the Model 90 and the Model 99 to create the Model 100 – flagship of the Beechcraft fleet. By the late 1960s, Olive Ann Beech…
Textron Aviation recently released the Customer Portal Dashboard (https://ww2.txtav.com/Dashboard). The company says this update allows customers to customize their tools and request access to all aspects of the Customer Portal through one, easy-to-use webpage. The tiled Dashboard includes direct links to Billing Management, Parts & Claims, Program Balances, Service Management, Technical Publications and EProcurement. Service…
Grmin® International, Inc. recently announced TXi™ engine indication system (EIS) support for select twin turboprop aircraft including the King Air 90 series. Twin turbine aircraft owners and operators will benefit from TXi EIS with features such as engine timers, exceedance recordings, dynamic engine indications, as well as wireless data logging that combine to reduce pilot…
Genesys Aerosystems recently announced an update to its S-TEC 3100 autopilot. Referenced as Version 1.4, it comprises of both software and hardware changes. The new hardware features a white backlit display perfect for bright sunlit panels or steep viewing angles. An updated bezel accompanies the change in display and features an optional VNAV button or…