User Guide

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Flight Instruction
Now retract the flaps and let the airplane accelerate to V
YSE
,
121 knots. Trim for that speed and set rudder and aileron trim so
it’ll hold heading, hands off, with the left wing raised enough to
get the skid ball about halfway out of its cage. Now look at the
rate of climb. Even with the airplane at maximum gross weight,
you should be seeing 740 fpm, not much less than the Chieftain
would do at gross weight with both engines running! Service ceil-
ing on one engine is listed as 21,735 feet on a standard day -
enough to clear any mountains in North America. Actually, it
might even be a bit higher: even if you took off at gross weight,
climbed straight to that altitude, and immediately lost an engine,
you’d already have burned off about 150 lbs of fuel.
As you can see, there’s a bit more to get used to - but there’s
a lot more there to help you too. Do you agree that flying a tur-
boprop is simpler than flying a piston twin? Want it even
easier? Then move on to the next chapter and sample a jet...
Flight Instruction
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Beech King Air B200 Before
Takeoff Checklist
1. Avionics and radar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHECK
2. EFIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TEST
3. Pressurization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SET
(inner scale at planned cruise alt. plus 500 feet)
4. Autopilot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHECK, then OFF
5. Elevator trim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHECK
6. Propeller feathering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHECK
(engines will continue to run with props feathered)
7. Vacuum and pneumatic pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHECK
8. Fuel quantity, flight and engine instruments . . . . . . CHECK
9. Propeller levers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FULL FORWARD
10. Flaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SET
11. Trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SET (3)
12. Left and right Bleed Air switches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OPEN
13. Electric heat (if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OFF
14. Annunciators . . . . . . . . EXTINGUISHED or CONSIDERED
15. Ice protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AS REQUIRED
16. External lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AS REQUIRED
17. Autofeather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ARM
18. Transponder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ON