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Turn and Slip
Indicator
Airspeed Indicator
RMI
Master Warning/Caution
Attitude Indicator (ADI)
Horizontal Situation Indicator (HSI)
Altimeter
Vertical Speed Indicator
Annunciator Panel
DME
ITT (L/R) Torque (L/R) Prop RPM (L/R) Ng (L/R) Fuel Flow (L/R) Oil Temperature/Pressure (L/R)
De-Ice Switches
Light Switches
Landing Gear
Gear Indicator
COMM1 Radio NAV1 Radio Transponder
COMM/NAV
Selector Switches
Weather
Radar
Altitude
Alerter/
Preselctor
COMM2 Radio NAV2 Radio ADF Radio
C.P. Airspeed
C.P. Attitude Indicator
C.P. Altimeter
DME
C.P. HSI
C.P. VSI
Turn and Slip Indicator
King Air Main Panel
C.P. RMI
Radar Altimeter
Master Battery
and Generator
Switches
Master Avionics
Power
Engine Auto
Ignition
Ignition and Engine Start
Gyro Suction
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Before we get into the main instrument panel, take a quick
look at the edge of the glare shield running across its top. Directly
in front of each pilot are two lights: a red one, labeled MASTER
WARNING, and an amber one labeled MASTER CAUTION. Each
of these lights will flash to alert the crew of a situation that needs
their attention on either the warning annunciator panel, located at
the center of the glare shield, or the caution/advisory annunciator
panel located at the bottom center of the instrument panel, just
forward of the power levers. Either flashing master warning or cau-
tion light can be extinguished by pressing on it, but the associated
warning or caution annunciator itself will stay on. The master
lights will flash again each time a new annunciator illuminates.
Inboard of the master lights on each side of the glare shield are the
guarded buttons to activate the engine fire extinguisher bottle for
that side. A “D” in the bottom half of each switch indicates that its
bottle has been discharged; the “OK” indicator illuminates during
system test.
On to the main panel itself: Flight instruments are arranged
in the usual “sacred six” in front of each pilot (the turn and slip
indicators may be displaced to make room for an RMI). You’ll
notice that the Attitude Director Indicator (ADI) and Horizontal
Situation Indicator (HSI) are bigger than in the airplanes you’ve
been flying up to now. This is because they use larger and more
accurate remote gyros, mounted in the avionics compartment in
the nose. In case of failure (annunciated by ATT or HDG flags in
the instruments), you can switch to the conventional panel-mount-
ed gyros on the copilot’s side of the panel.
ENGINE INSTRUMENTS
The engine instruments are stacked, two
across for the left and right engines, to the right of
the captain’s flight instrument panel. They’re some-
what different from what you’ve become used to
flying piston-powered airplanes.
At the top of the stack is Interstage Turbine
Temperature (ITT). This measures the temperature of
the hot gases between the gas generator turbine and
power turbine. Strictly speaking, it’s not a power-
setting instrument, but rather a limiting one: it’s the
instrument you’ll monitor, especially at higher alti-
tudes, to avoid exceeding engine limitations.
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