Yahoooooo!!!

[flydaddy0499]

I just landed a job flying a KA-90 for a company in CHA. So long to the 400-series piston flying and hello kerosene burners!!

Thanks to all on this board for the advice and help in my search.

Flydaddy0499

 

[AA717driver]

Congrats daddy! Enjoy. Now start shooting for that jet job... (Sorry, no break from the cynicism )TC

 

[mmmdonut]

Congrats!

 

[Ultraman]

Congratulations! Enjoy your new gig!

 

[banned username 2]

I only have ONE thing to say...

I TOLD YOU!!!

Don't limit yourself to just 400 series Cessnas, with your time you are good to go in KingAirs and similar equipment... When looking, always try to move up a bit...

CONGRATS!!!

(By the way, it's a BE-90)

 

[flyer172r]

Congratulations and good luck with the new gig. I hope your upgrade to turbines is a smooth one.

 

[jergar999]

Now you can do whatever you want whenever you want to the engines and expect no reprisal. If you have been flying turbocharged Cessnas I think you will be amazed at how little there is to do in a King Air, especially a 90.

 

[Canucit]

congrats

I fly the 90 and it is a good bird

a little slow ....okay so its really slow, but fun to fly
it
keeps you in the weather and does not have much range, but it also has a extra set of levers for you to fiddle with.... lol

 

[jergar999]

(By the way, it's a BE-90)

or a BE9L!!

 

[400A]

Landings

Remember, leave 400 ftlbs of torque per side in while you get used to the landing. Kind of lands flat, but big soft tires and the little bit of power will make you look like a veteran.

Best of Luck! Congrats!!

 

[GVFlyer]

I just landed a job flying a KA-90 for a company in CHA. So long to the 400-series piston flying and hello kerosene burners!!

Thanks to all on this board for the advice and help in my search.

Flydaddy0499

Congratulations on your new position. The flight characteristic I liked about the BE-90 was the way you could fly it into ground effect then spin the trim wheel until it full stalled onto the runway. I never could workout a full stall landing in a T-tailed KingAir. The B-100 always seemed to require 300-400 lbs a side all the way to to the runway to keep from embarassing yourself.

Have fun!

GV

 

[AA717driver]

The B-100 always seemed to require 300-400 lbs a side all the way to to the runway to keep from embarassing yourself.

Have fun!

GV

I flew an A100 in ATA's corporate department. I'll never forget my first landing. Having come from the SD360, where you pulled the power to idle over the last of the approach lights, I did the same technique. I thought the other guy was gonna $h!t! Man, those lights came up quick.

Didn't do that again!TC

 

[flydaddy0499]

Well...I go to school next week for the C-90B intial. It's a 2000 model with Collins EFIS, Collins radios and Garmin 400. I just got back from my first trip in the a/c with a high-time (and very patient) babysitter in the right seat. It seems as though it was pretty easy to get used to in the air. My first landing didn't reserve my name plate next to Chuck Yeager's or anything but no one complained. I suppose Simuflite will help a little.

The important thing is that my boys think I am some sort of astronaut. My 5 year old has observed many similarities between the 90 and the space shuttle; many of which I have to agree with. Nonetheless, it's finally real corporate flying with the coffee pots, ice bins, newspapers, and snacks: waiting around for hours past the 2 hour meeting for the boss, nice hotels, exotic destinations, somewhat of a schedule made a couple of weeks in advance only to be changed by the latest craving for New Orleans seafood: I am well compensated and the boss is more than fair with nice hotels and free rental cars, and all expenses paid while on the trip.

After my transistion is complete, I, in turn, will have the opportunity to ask some struggling CFI to come along and play co-pilot for $100 a day (the boss is not cheap on safety). And even thought the C90B is easily a single pilot aircraft, I get the company and the CFI gets the multi-turbine time.

At least I don't have to wash and detail the aircraft. Even so, I am finally continuing my journey towards the destiny of a G550 or the latest equilvalent when I get there. Maybe I should go buy a leather jacket that all the other corporate pilots were wearing at the FBO today?

Thanks everyone!

Flydaddy0499

 

[BoilerUP]

After my transistion is complete, I, in turn, will have the opportunity to ask some struggling CFI to come along and play co-pilot for $100 a day (the boss is not cheap on safety). And even thought the C90B is easily a single pilot aircraft, I get the company and the CFI gets the multi-turbine time.

Congrats on your new gig - and as a struggling CFI myself, I appreciate the above sentiment.