Current Issue – King Air Magazine
Value Added
Garmin Expands Guided Visual Approaches Database
Garmin has added 15 new approaches and 10 new airports – Long Beach, California (KLGB), and San Jose, California (KSJC), among others – to the Guided Visual Approaches database designed in collaboration with Hughes Aerospace and offered for purchase through flyGarmin.com. The new additions bring the total to 46 visual approaches in 36 challenging airport…
Operator Spotlight
Photography by Steve Schulte Every time Joe and Melinda Herring walk up to their 1993 Beechcraft King Air B200, they think about the multitude of colors they considered for the stripe in the exterior paint scheme and the many carpet samples they scrutinized for the interior. Beyond a finished airplane, they see the decisions, delays,…
Tech Tidbits
Part 1: King Air Fuel Quantity Indicating
The news of Raisbeck and CiES improving the fuel quantity indicating system of the King Air fleet is welcome news indeed. The factory indicating systems have been the bane of many an operator and maintenance shop. There’s really nothing technically wrong with the current capacitive systems, but they can be sensitive to the environment that…
Insurance
Third-party Aircraft Management: Both Parties Beware
King Airs are excellent aircraft commonly operated by a wide range of general aviation participants – from owners who fly the aircraft themselves to companies with professional pilots or aircraft management companies that maintain and operate the aircraft on the owner’s behalf, sometimes for supplemental charter use too. Having a third party, such as an…
Direct from the DPE
Photos by Clint Goff Type “stupid pet tricks” in your search engine and you’ll be inundated with videos of obsessively cute animals doing some of the dumbest acts that humans have dreamt up. Fortunately, these stupid tricks are entertaining and safe. No one gets hurt, so we smile and go on with life. Doing “stupid”…