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Old 27th Mar 2007, 13:06
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j3pipercub
 
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Zulu Kilo,

Is it for a job or just for gen. interest? I am flying them currently and the only other thing I can add is bring ear plugs, and dont expect them to get anywhere fast, BUT you can put them down in almost nothing, no nasty high Vmca speeds and Vy and Vyse are the same number, 65kts, as mentioned earlier. The attitude after t/o aiming for Vyse + 10kts is quite high for a light twin.

They may only be my second twin (first being Twin Catastrophe), but they are capable, noisy, miserable, slow, vibrating old clunkers, and are a fantastic piece of machinery for what they are designed to do, and I would prefer to fly them than a C208, and yes I can fly them too! (Might have something to do with which column the hours go in the logbook) But seriously if you can get over the noise, you'll love em. The added bonus with the loud noise is after a few weeks you can ignore people you don't like and just claim you cant hear em cos you drive BN2's

Have a good one mate

Cheers

j3
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