Back on topic. The Pilatus PC 12 turboprop in my eyes is not really 'a small plane', Erez. Indeed this single turboprop is longer than one twin turboprop which I sometimes fly in the simulator:
Pilatus PC 12 - length 14,40 m - wingspan 16,28 m. That's not small at all.
Beechcraft B350 Super King Air Simulator - length 14,22 m - wingspan 17,65 m.
Once I was asked if I had visited the USA to see how the NTSB is working. The answer is no. But I always sit near my TV when Greg Feith appears in it. You don't know which case I'm aiming at?
On the evening of July 16th 1999, Mr John F Kennedy Junior entered his new Piper Saratoga (manufacturer code: PA-32R) to fly from Essex County Airport to Martha's Wineyard. One pilot with zero flight hours on type plus unexperienced by night and above the Ocean, plus two female passengers. The result is known: dead, All three souls on board.
The Saratoga impacted with almost full cruise speed on the Atlantic Ocean, i.e 135 knots, 250 km/h or 156 US-miles. Not survivable, but avoidable. Even before the TV camera, there have been experienced pilots who'd enjoyed to fly JFK jr and his two passengers from Essex to Martha.
Now the Pilatus PC 12 is bigger and again much faster than the Saratoga. 5 passengers in a Saratoga @ 135 kias. The Pilatus PC 12 is a different caliber: up to 9 passengers plus 2 pilots, so all in all 11 souls on board, @ 285 knots. 528 km/h or 330 mph.
The Beechcraft B350 Super King Air with her two 1050 hp turboprop engines which I know from a Simulator is not really much faster than such a Pilatus PC 12:
Beech B350 carries 11 passengers plus 2 pilots, so all in all 13 souls, @ 312 knots. 577 km/h or 361 mph.
I assume that the type licenses between these two a/c are different. For the Pilatus you only need single engine propeller.
For the Super King Air 350 you definitely need a twin turbopropeller license. That's basically the same license which you need for flight #
EW 2083 which is operated with a De Havilland DH8-400 twin turbopropeller with 80 passenger seats, @ 330 knots. 611 km/h or 382 mph.
285 or 330 knots. That's also a speed which you fly in a jet with more than 80 seats.
I still miss the biography section. My simulator career was, Cessna single propeller, Beech Baron 58 twin propeller without turbo, Beech B350 Super King Air twin turbopropeller, then B734,
and then yet the 747-200 with INS navigation, which was not really included in fs9. The next logical step was Randazzo's LH-B744 QOTSI fsx simulator.
One of the final steps which I plan are Randazzo's B744 QOTSII, and of course the B748 passage jet.
My trick is, now with the B744, I only really regularly use two licenses. Long haul jet, 4 engines. From there I go back to the twin turbopropeller Super King Air.
Which in my eyes is the much much easier way than vice versa!
Once in a jet, the 300 knots in a Super King Air feel very normal. But what if you come from downstairs, from a Cessna 152?
That circumstance was not only JFK juniors death, at the age of only 38 years, 'be careful, the Saratoga is faster than everything which you have seen before'.
But I still remember a case where 4 young people took dads key for the BMW M5 engine, somewhere in the USA, and they were very young and very curious how far the new drivers license would take em. On a private airstrip. Not so very far. Only up the next hill behind the strip, and all 4 ended dead in a stable big tree.
PS: Now that I am old enough to be the father of these 4 young people.. Please don't do that. Do not challenge strong engines which you've never seen before. Not either in a Blizzard. Amen.
Pilatus PC 12 - length 14,40 m - wingspan 16,28 m. That's not small at all.
Beechcraft B350 Super King Air Simulator - length 14,22 m - wingspan 17,65 m.
Once I was asked if I had visited the USA to see how the NTSB is working. The answer is no. But I always sit near my TV when Greg Feith appears in it. You don't know which case I'm aiming at?
On the evening of July 16th 1999, Mr John F Kennedy Junior entered his new Piper Saratoga (manufacturer code: PA-32R) to fly from Essex County Airport to Martha's Wineyard. One pilot with zero flight hours on type plus unexperienced by night and above the Ocean, plus two female passengers. The result is known: dead, All three souls on board.
The Saratoga impacted with almost full cruise speed on the Atlantic Ocean, i.e 135 knots, 250 km/h or 156 US-miles. Not survivable, but avoidable. Even before the TV camera, there have been experienced pilots who'd enjoyed to fly JFK jr and his two passengers from Essex to Martha.
Now the Pilatus PC 12 is bigger and again much faster than the Saratoga. 5 passengers in a Saratoga @ 135 kias. The Pilatus PC 12 is a different caliber: up to 9 passengers plus 2 pilots, so all in all 11 souls on board, @ 285 knots. 528 km/h or 330 mph.
The Beechcraft B350 Super King Air with her two 1050 hp turboprop engines which I know from a Simulator is not really much faster than such a Pilatus PC 12:
Beech B350 carries 11 passengers plus 2 pilots, so all in all 13 souls, @ 312 knots. 577 km/h or 361 mph.
I assume that the type licenses between these two a/c are different. For the Pilatus you only need single engine propeller.
For the Super King Air 350 you definitely need a twin turbopropeller license. That's basically the same license which you need for flight #
EW 2083 which is operated with a De Havilland DH8-400 twin turbopropeller with 80 passenger seats, @ 330 knots. 611 km/h or 382 mph.
285 or 330 knots. That's also a speed which you fly in a jet with more than 80 seats.
I still miss the biography section. My simulator career was, Cessna single propeller, Beech Baron 58 twin propeller without turbo, Beech B350 Super King Air twin turbopropeller, then B734,
and then yet the 747-200 with INS navigation, which was not really included in fs9. The next logical step was Randazzo's LH-B744 QOTSI fsx simulator.
One of the final steps which I plan are Randazzo's B744 QOTSII, and of course the B748 passage jet.
My trick is, now with the B744, I only really regularly use two licenses. Long haul jet, 4 engines. From there I go back to the twin turbopropeller Super King Air.
Which in my eyes is the much much easier way than vice versa!
Once in a jet, the 300 knots in a Super King Air feel very normal. But what if you come from downstairs, from a Cessna 152?
That circumstance was not only JFK juniors death, at the age of only 38 years, 'be careful, the Saratoga is faster than everything which you have seen before'.
But I still remember a case where 4 young people took dads key for the BMW M5 engine, somewhere in the USA, and they were very young and very curious how far the new drivers license would take em. On a private airstrip. Not so very far. Only up the next hill behind the strip, and all 4 ended dead in a stable big tree.
PS: Now that I am old enough to be the father of these 4 young people.. Please don't do that. Do not challenge strong engines which you've never seen before. Not either in a Blizzard. Amen.
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