Supplement Beech 200
 

Hello everyone
I've read that beechcraft published a supplement about the kingair and the steep approach. I would be very grateful if you can send me this supplement for Beech 200 and B200 (or the link).

Thanks and have a good flight

I am interested in that supplement as well

Inbalance

Haven't seen too many responses, flew the aircraft for several thousand hours, what will the supplement address? :confused:

There are several steep approaches in Europe, like London City and Lugano.
We used to fly these approaches in the past and it isn´t a problem with the B200. Since 12 Month we are not alowed to fly these approaches anymore, because the POH doesn´t give any information that the B200 is certified to fly steep approaches.


Inbalance

I see, thank you.

Can't speak to the 200 but the 350 has a 5.5 degree chart in the performance section of the POH.

Many moons ago I had a similar question about a 200. Never occurred to me other than calling Beech....

AFAIK there is a supplement for the B200, but it costs.
Ask the guys at LCY Jet Centre, I forgot the fellows name, but one guy knows it all. I had the issue roughly a year ago for a C90B, and Beech hadn´t done a Supplement for the 90 at that time, but I was told they offer one for the B200.

His dudeness,

Without the supplement, how can you

a) provide your crew with steep approach course documentation? - I think the local CAA would appreciate training being carried out as per AFM supp's. And

b) how do you prove that you operated your aircraft within AFM limits?

You might want to re-think this one :cool:

BFC at bristol can offer the steep approach supplement for the b200

plus the required training and the ops manual requirements if uk pt ops

having said that we have only flown into the city 5-6 trips in 2 years with pax which makes you wonder if its worth the bother!

Well,
it WAS totally okay for about 6 to 8 years. There was no Supplement to the AFM for the B200 (that I flew then) and the Authorities just wanted a Procedure to OM-A and D for the use of London City. I wrote one, containing all necessary information for the training and use of LCY - granted no information wether the KA could actually do the trick was available.
(We trained on the actual aircraft with VNAV capable FMS and indication via the EFIS PFD)

Everybody was happy: in our case LCY Airport, the CAA and the LBA (german Authority).
Landed in LCY maybe 25 times, give or take a few times...
Then somebody discovered that there are Supplements to the AFM for steep approaches.
IMO the situation is: well we know for sure the KA can go into LCY, likely thousands of movements have been done without incident, but now we need to prove what we already know.

IF there would be any doubt to the capability to perform that type of approach on the aircraft I fly, I´d certainly won´t do it without the prove...
If you ever flew a B200 (or any other PT6ed KingAir) and you pulled back the throttles and had the props full forward you know that she could go even steeper than 6 degrees. Its like an elevator going down.