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Free medical flights for kids with cancer.
Can you help us fly more children in more states?
Hope Flight Foundation is
looking for a donated
King Air 200 or larger, in
airworthy condition. We
currently use a borrowed
Cessna 182, and fly in CA,
OR, and NV. The King Air will
allow us to help more children
in more states, and provide a
stretcher and pressurized cabin. The donor will receive a tax deduction if desired.
Please call our president, Douglas Harding, at (510) 427-3956.
www.HopeFlightFoundation.org
electrohydraulic landing gear systems. The hydraulics are a bit easier to rig without limit switches to adjust, yet shops are very familiar with the old system since it has been around for so long (beginning with the Twin Bonanza). There is a very slight advantage in the newer system since it has a totally separate emergency extension line going to each actuator yet failures of the normal or the emergency system in the older as well as the newer styles are very rare.
I think other considerations – engine times, avionics, modifications and appearance – would play a larger role in my decision making when buying a used King Air than the type of gear it has.
Lew Marden had this query: “I am currently flying a B200, BB-1896. Is it acceptable to have fuel transfer from the main tanks into the aux tank? We are experiencing a transfer rate of between six and 12 gallons per 24-hour period while the plane sits on a level floor inside a hangar. Also, is it common for King Airs to have inaccurate fuel gauges?”
Hello Lew,
Where are you located? The biggest enemy of accurate fuel quantity gauges is moisture. Here in the American Southwest where I live, the gauges usually remain quite trouble-free, once the access panels to the quantity probes and the wiring coming out of the probes have
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