Taxiing a B200 (the 'lag') ... tricks?

[corpflunkie]

If you think the KA-200 is bad, try your hand at a MU2 with split power levers. It'll git yer attention real quick!! The KingAir will seem like child's play after that.

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[BD King]

So very true.

If you think a KA-200 is fun to taxi try a Turbo Commander or a 20 or 30 series Lear. We used to gather around to watch the new guys.

'Sled

Took the words out of my mouth. I don't know about the Lears, but watching a guy in a Commander for the first time is a hoot.

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[Snakum]

Isn't a bit odd, though, that the Baron and the Seneca steer as tightly as a Skyhawk (or even better on take-off, as long as you keep the levers sync'd ... no SE torque), but other aircraft (Commander, MU2, et al) are like learning how to taxi all over again?

Is this a function of the steering mechanism ... the way the steering is actuated? Or is it due to the much increased power/torque that requires more attention to keeping the engines symetrical? Or a combination of both?

So much to learn ... so few brain cells left.

Minh the Clueless

 

[moxiepilot]

most of this has been mentioned, but i had the same problems for the first few hours in the king air. as for taxiing, small rudder corrections w/o differential thrust. jockying the thrust levers just gives you more to do.

take off i used to be all over the runway too, so no worries. it does come with experience, but the best suggestions i read were the dancing on the rudder pedals and looking ahead of the aircraft.

good luck my friend

 

[bigD]

Dunno about the King Air, but in the Cheyenne II, I'm in Beta all the time on the ground to avoid touching the brakes, and I can generally keep it straight with very small adjustments to the throttles. I barely have to work the rudder pedals at all. Like BE200Driver said, in a tighter turn, I just pull one out of beta and that's all there is to it.

As for takeoff - I do the same that 414Flyer does...power it up to 400 pounds on each side, release the brakes, and give it hell.

 

[Vector4fun]

So very true.

If you think a KA-200 is fun to taxi try a Turbo Commander or a 20 or 30 series Lear. We used to gather around to watch the new guys.

'Sled

Dad said back when the new-hires were sent to C-46s, you could easily tell on the taxi-out who'd been loggin' Parker P-51 time...

 

[Snakum]

I just found this again by accident ... three years later. LOL.

Indeed, this piece of advice proved most helpful:

"2) Keep making constant small adjustments on the rudder pedals. Instead of seeing the nose drift left and then stomping on the right rudder, add a little bit of right, then a little bit of left to straighten it out and then a little more right. (This all happens much quicker than it took you to read the last sentence). Think of it as dancing on the rudder pedals."

And as everyone said, it got much easier. I was very lucky to get into Barons and King Airs very early on. I owe a certain corporate CP in GSO more than I could ever repay.

And I do sorely miss it. Couldn't take the paycut and time away from momma in the end and went back to IT. May be part-timing it again soon, though.