Hey everyone my name is Ian and I am a 21 year old flight sim enthusiast. I played Flight Simulator quite a bit back when I was a teenager but gave it up for school, motocross, and music. I recently got back into it and, despite only having an HP laptop and Logitech joystick to play it with, am having a fantastic time. I plan on building a computer here in the next few months to enhance my FS experience. Anyway, the reason I am posting this is to ask for a little bit of help from you guys. As I mentioned it's been a while since I've played so I'm a little rusty on most of the procedures I need to take for flying. I bought the Aeroworx King Air 200 and have and been flying that pretty much exclusively. It would be great if some of you guys could watch my short flight from KPRC to KFLG and give me a few pointers on what I need to do differently and what I'm screwing up on (besides my horrible landing at Flagstaff that would have killed us all, had it been real.) If this is the wrong place to post this then please inform me and I will delete it. Thanks in advance for your help everyone.

 

(Watch in 1080)

There's not a lot of us Aeroworx King Air flyers... I am no longer current, so I can just say: whatever you think you did wrong, keep trying, and RTFM!

Perhaps your clip will inspire me to go have a fly again, it's truly one of the best flightsim models ever.

Ian,

 

There is still an active Aeroworx King Air forum that has some good tips for flying this bird (you'll have to Google it, sorry). You do need to be careful coming in high on approach because it is difficult to get your speed down. It's easy to get behind this aircraft (or any advanced aircraft). Your speed on final was way too high. Like the previous poster suggested, practice, practice. I haven't flown this aircraft In a while.

 

Todd

Great I'll check that forum! As far as small things like my lights on takeoff and landing, and my startup procedure, did all that seem ok?

Looooooong time since I took this great bird out, but I do remember it being the hardest to land correctly. Have a vague recollection about condition levers being key in various phases of flight. Anyway here's the forum:

 

http://sdmaus.com/kingair/index.php

As per Todd and Mark and their advice. Condition levers were set to high (full?) for proper taxi and landing. In my own experience of landing I have found that very careful fuel planning for the flight makes a big difference. Any unnecessary additional fuel weight adds to the forward momentum and can make getting onto the ground difficult. I try to have the speed at or around 120kts +/- depending on wind at the beginning of final, at around 500 ft AGL I cut the throttles to allow the turbines to spool down while I trim to a 600 - 700 fpm descent. That gives me a good view of the runway and as I approach I make very small throttle adjustments if necessary, to extend the glide to the touch down zone. (condition levers at low idle?) and flare - touchdown at about 90kts. That usually works without any passengers screaming, vomiting or any serious contusions / lacerations.

 

Regards,

Mel

Thanks so much guys, it truly is a challenge to land this aircraft. I'm so used to speed brakes that I've come to rely on them much too much :blink:

I'm also having a big issue with the plane not getting picked up on the localizer for ILS approaches. I've had to do all my landings manually with no ILS. Any idea what I need to be doing? The other forum had no mention of it.

The other forum had no mention of it

 

The other forum has a very detailed explanation indeed. Just have a little poke around the patches.