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Is the MU-2 Difficult to Fly?

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It wasn't anymore challenging then any other aircraft out there. Just quick, very ineffective roll control at slow speed on final, and the fact that if you aren't seconds ahead of the plane your dead. Its like any other quick little TP. Treat it with respect and understand the airplane then its as safe as the next plane, disrespect it, and your dead. Although, I never did sucessfully ever grease a landing in that thing. I miss it!
 
There have always been a number of aircraft which are great when all is working and require more knowledge and reaction than others. Aerostars come to mind from an earlier time. The speed usually makes them attractive bit I think we have to give credance to the record the aircraft has versus others. Most of you had good things to say about the aircraft, unfortunately the dead do not get to post.
 
Australia has always required a licence or log book endorsement for multis. For turbine equipment Oz requires a type rating with a formal ground school & then flight training. In the case of the MU2 Oz additionally requires ground training & certification for flight into known icing. The known icing requirement was introduced after an accident where the pilot was able to report the a/c's behaviour while falling out of the sky due ice accumulating on non-protected areas. Short answer is 'don't fly below the Vmin for icing'.

I did ground school with an 8000 hr MU2 time bloke. He had nothing but praise for the aircraft **subject to flying it in accordance with its peculiarities**.

He said the a/c's traps for the unwary included jet-like handling instead of the more familiar prop-like handling, spoiler-only roll control so using any roll input to manage asymmetric ops had adverse performance effects. He said the technique to use was to wind in up to full roll trim (the a/c uses dedicated small, inboard ailerons for roll trim) and a few other things related to the engines & fuel system.

Otherwise I was left with the impression of a capable aircraft that is somewhat similar in its 'traps' to other turboprops as the Aerostar is to other light piston twins. Respect it's peculiarites & get a lot of safe capability.
 
Tinstaafl said:
Australia has always required a licence or log book endorsement for multis. For turbine equipment Oz requires a type rating with a formal ground school & then flight training. In the case of the MU2 Oz additionally requires ground training & certification for flight into known icing. The known icing requirement was introduced after an accident where the pilot was able to report the a/c's behaviour while falling out of the sky due ice accumulating on non-protected areas. Short answer is 'don't fly below the Vmin for icing'.

I did ground school with an 8000 hr MU2 time bloke. He had nothing but praise for the aircraft **subject to flying it in accordance with its peculiarities**.

He said the a/c's traps for the unwary included jet-like handling instead of the more familiar prop-like handling, spoiler-only roll control so using any roll input to manage asymmetric ops had adverse performance effects. He said the technique to use was to wind in up to full roll trim (the a/c uses dedicated small, inboard ailerons for roll trim) and a few other things related to the engines & fuel system.

Otherwise I was left with the impression of a capable aircraft that is somewhat similar in its 'traps' to other turboprops as the Aerostar is to other light piston twins. Respect it's peculiarites & get a lot of safe capability.
Thanks for the post. Isn't this what the experienced MU-2 pilots have said?
 
originally posted by Lrjtcaptain: It wasn't anymore challenging then any other aircraft out there. Just quick, very ineffective roll control at slow speed on final, and the fact that if you aren't seconds ahead of the plane your dead. Its like any other quick little TP.
Sorry to pipe in but you don't appear to have any real knowledge about the plane, it has very effective roll capability even at very slow approach speeds well below blue line. As far as the challenge goes, all depends on what you were previously flying, if you had LR jet experience prior to the MU2 I can understand your opinion, compared to similar size turbo-props, this is much more challenging compared to say the King Airs, Pipers, Cessna or Merlin series. Like "any other quick TP", you are not even close, have you ever flown any turbo-props, I doubt it. Flame suit on.:rolleyes:
 

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