'morno' yr right am sure the PC12 is faster than that but I think what 'air med' might be trying to say is the average ground speed over a sector for planning purposes is more like the numbers he quoted. I used to fly a Lear35/36 even though it crusied at Mach 0.8 (say 475kts) on a good day we quoted/flight planned at around 400 kts. Even the Beech at say 260 kts doesn't get that especially on short sectors with low Co pwr settings (girl power
), something we do here a lot, 35 mins average, can't get 260 kts down low.
As I said flying a small jet is a piece of cake, any switched on pilot could handle one after a few hrs, it's more the decisions that need to be made that where experience counts, not the actual handling of the machine.
Wmk2