aircraft:king_air_c90_gtx
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King Air C90 Gtx
Autopilot Description
- Press the FD button to show the flight director(s)
- Press the button for the heading, it should activate the HDG mode, push it a second time and it goes back to ROLL.
- Push the heading knob in to set the heading to the heading of the aircraft (SYNC)
- Push the altitude button and it should select altitude hold, push it again to go back to pitch hold.
- Push the vertical speed button, it goes to VS, push again goes back to pitch.
- FLC for a speed hold (IAS climb or descent), use speed knob to select the speed you want… push FLC again, goes back to pitch hold
- When in VS or PITCH you can use the vertical wheel to pitch the nose up/down…
To change the navigation source to follow the FMS flight plan you currently have to press the NAV/BRG button
- After selecting the right source on your side make sure the white arrow is pointing to your side (can be changed with the CPL button).
- Then push NAV to arm the capture (When you are close to the route it will engage FMS lateral steering and follow the route.)
- There is no VNAV climb installed in our King air, so climb with PITCH, VS or FLC.(Descent with VS, FLC or VNAV)
- Then change source to NAV1 or NAV2 (depending on where you entered the ILS frequency) and then push APPR to fly the approach.
- You can also leave it in FMS source and push approach but that will give you an non precision approach.
V Speeds
Symbol | Notes | Indicated Air Speed |
---|---|---|
Vmca | 90 KIAS | |
Vsse | 97 KIAS | |
Vx | 101 KIAS | |
Vy | 111 KIAS | |
Vxse | 100 KIAS | |
Vyse | 107 KIAS | |
Va | 169 KIAS | |
Vref | 100 KIAS | |
Vmo | 208 KIAS | |
Vfe | 35% | 178 KIAS |
100% | 137 KIAS | |
Vle | 156 KIAS | |
Retraction Only | 129 KIAS |
Other
Balked Landing Climb | 95 KIAS | |
Glide | 125 KIAS | |
Turbulent Air | 161 KIAS |
Cruise Climb
To 10,000 FT | 150 KIAS | |
10,000 FT - 20,000 FT | 130 KIAS | |
20,000 FT - 25,000 FT | 120 KIAS | |
25,000 FT - 30,000 FT | 110 KIAS |
Note- Vmca and Vy are not indicated on ASI.
Take-off Speeds
Weight (LBS) | Take-Off Speeds (KIAS) | |
---|---|---|
Rotate | At 50' | |
9650 | 97 | 106 |
9500 | 96 | 105 |
9000 | 95 | 104 |
8500 | 94 | 103 |
8000 | 92 | 102 |
aircraft/king_air_c90_gtx.txt · Last modified: 2019/07/01 10:40 by jh