I thought you might enjoy reading about some memories I have of a couple of events in my life … tied to King Airs, of course! I think it was 1974; I was in my third year as a ground and flight instructor at the Beechcraft Training Center in Wichita and the center’s manager, Don…
My aim in writing this article is not to present anything new but rather to simply review some of the fuel system information that you should have already received. I am sure the fuel system was covered extensively in your initial King Air training course and, if you have been flying King Airs for a…
You younger men and women flying King Airs are lucky: You never had to learn the Secondary Low Pitch Stop (SLPS) system. This hard-to-understand and accident-prone system is a very important necessity on King Airs powered by the PT6A-20 engine, only. That covers all the A90, B90 and early C90 models. But – and here’s…
Author’s Note: The following article comes from a chapter in “The King Air Book, Volume I.” It has been abbreviated and simplified here to appeal to more King Air operators. The King Air B100 model is unique, as most of our readers know, in that it is the only production model in the King Air…
I began as an instructor at the Beechcraft Training Center on Jan. 3, 1972. If anyone had told me then that I would still be teaching King Air pilots in 2022, I would have thought they were crazy, but so it is. To steal a line from “Saturday Night Live:” “King Airs been very, very…
As the picture above shows, the ailerons on the King Air 200- and 300-series models include a pronounced lump on their trailing edges. The official name for the lump is “Trailing Edge Bulge” but, to me, they are simply “lumps.” The ailerons on other King Air models don’t have the lump. Presenting the reason why…
On Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021, I had the pleasure of trying out the ThrustSense Autothrottle system for the first time. IS&S is the abbreviation for Innovative Solutions and Support, the company that designed, tested and certified this system that adjusts power lever position to maintain a torque value or an airspeed value that the pilot…
This month’s article will cause you to put on your thinking caps and consider some King Air systems questions that you probably haven’t seen or heard before. I am going to present six questions to have you ponder for as long as you need, then I will provide my answers … the correct ones, I…
Author’s Note: This is a repeat of my article written for the December 2014 issue of this magazine. It also comprises the chapter starting on Page 307 of The King Air Book – Volume II. Obviously, I think it is important enough to review once more. Rarely do we pilots need to apply rapid and…
There’s not going to be anything new in this article. Every pilot who earned his or her multi-engine rating has undergone training in how to handle one-engine-inoperative (OEI) situations whenever they may occur. Yet, in recent years King Airs seem to have been involved in a rash of very serious, usually fatal, accidents during takeoff.…