Beginners guide to the Beech King Air 350i in Microsoft Flight Simulator
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- Опубликовано: 22 янв 2022
- A basic guide to the stock Beech King Air 350i in Microsoft Flight Simulator - showing you how to start the aircraft from cold and dark, and fly a circuit. This is the stock version of the aircraft without any mods - demonstrated on purpose to show it's basic operation.
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Feathering is the opposite of air brakes. We feather the prop on an inoperable engine to decrease drag on the dead side. This helps manage adverse yaw, and increases climb performance. In the case of a single engine, the prop is also feathered for an inoperable engine to decrease drag which helps achieve max endurance and range. Pushing the prop lever full forward is the draggiest position.
Yep - I said the opposite - I'm good at doing that.
Thanks for your excellent tutorials. Very calm and relaxed.
Excellent video thank you, I like your calm voice as you're explaining things. I've been flying this for a couple of days and love it. I do need to plan a bit more as it's harder to reduce speed. If only i could touch down as well as you did lol. Oh well, practise makes perfect 😆
Love this aircraft and your excellent tutorials. Many thanks.
Many thanks!
Really enjoyed this. Thank you for posting
Nice plane and video! I'm going to give it a go in a bit. Thanks!
Good luck :)
I have every plane and yet I still find myself coming back to the king 350, such a great balance of everything. Can land on any runway really and is still pretty fast for a turboprop
Agree - it's very versatile.
Can land in grass and dirt airstrips??
Thanks to the Reverse capability - too fast most of the time...
Great video - short and to the point
That was so well done
Thankyou :)
Haha thanks for showing us that the menu button works! I thought this thing was completely useless because you couldn’t program anything. Glad I watched!
So good to compare this video to the one you created recently with analogue instruments :) I'm trying to solve how to configure reverse thrust with the Thrustmaster controller.
As far as I recall, I had to use the 0-100 axis on the throttles (and create a new profile for the quadrant because of it).
Great tutorial well done
Glad you liked it - don't forget to subscribe to see my new videos.
Im a bit late in getting MSFS and watching your channel but enjoying both, you taught me how to fly the Cessna but now want to have a go at the king air. Have you done an auto pilot tutorial on it. By the way your dads rig is unbelivable.
It's hands down my favourite stock in msfs2020.
What do you say about all that nose oscillation at takeoff? Doesn’t look too stable if you ask me.
Great video, would love to see an autopilot video on this aircraft
I'll add it to the list :)
can you do a video on how to use the autopilot system
King Air comes equipped with Collins Pro Line Fusion, out of the factory. Interesting in the sim it has Garmin.
Oh, I'm sure the aircraft developers pick and choose from the available kit in the sim - developing new instruments is difficult.
My favorite aircraft 🔥🔥
It is pretty good :)
good tutorial, excellent narration, great tips. very much enjoyed. Thank You.
Im still wondering how the "reverse pitch'' is engaged......
the 'menu button' tip was really great.
Thankyou!
Map a button or key to toggle reverse thrust. Once toggled you can use your throttle to control reverse thrust.
Press and hold F2.
I just searched for how to fly the King Air ( since I had not flown it yet ) in MSFS 2020 and who was first on the list was Youuuuu and I though oh my concerns are no longer valid with propper instruction. oh I shall also try to find some mods for the cfg as well Thank You again
You're welcome :)
i dont think strobe should be turned on at the gate:)
... and beacon after engine startup ;)
and both engines started at the same time...
I’m new to this game can someone explain the context on when each light is supposed to be used?
Beacon is a warning for start-up
@@aaronsmith3484trobes required before entering runway, in flight and until landed and off the runway.
Red beacon/anti collision light - on anytime engine is running
Landing lights required entering runways and on takeoff up to 10k ft or 18k ft. Landing lights on at 10k ft descending.
Nav lights not required during day but recommended to be on.
I really like this aircraft, it will be even better once steam gauge overhaul will be released :) I'll buy add-on 1 day !
I think there might be a lot of people waiting for the King Air analogue version :)
@@jonbeckett I'll have an email notification, as soon as it's released. Old fashioned steam gauges is my thing :)
@@yams900 And mine :)
This is my favourite plane to fly in MSFS
It's great, isn't it.
Hello Jonathan, thanks a lot for your incredibly useful videos. I´d like to ask if you know how to brighten up the Garmin displays because I can´t almost see them. The switches and knobs of the overhead panel doesn´t seem to actuate despite adjusting them (sorry about my bad english). Thanks again
Do you mean the screen buttons, or the rest of the cockpit? If in doubt, press L on the keyboard a few times.
How do you manage to drive around so slowly when getting pretty high rpm? When I'm pretty much idling and letting go of the brake, my plane keeps picking up speed and I'm constantly having to hit the key I mapped to manually brake
Great video, thank you. I have the HC Alpha and Bravo and I’m trying to bind the arming switches for the ignition and bind the ignition/start switches. Is the dial on the right of the HC YOKE (off/r/l/both/start) meant to be used for magnetos? I would be interested in your control mappings.
Thanks!
Robert
Yes - the L/R/Both/Start is magnetos and starter/ignition combined.
Beechcraft King Air is good airplane. My boyfriend said. He was pilot in the U.S. Navy and commerical plane.
Wow wow
Hey Jonathan 😀 that was nice! Thanks for explaining how to do it.
Great video , crazy question when i land and follow taxi ribbon the plane wants to go in its own direction any reason why?
Thanks
Probably because either the yoke, or the rudder aren't centered. Also be sure to move flaps up again after touchdown.
im on series S. holding B will engage the reverse thrust
On PC I think F2 does the same thing.
Any idea how to switch on interior cockpit lights on, flying dark is a challenge
I can't remember off the top of my head - press L :)
After 100 hours in the Airbus a320neo. I tried to come back to the turboprop. The king air was my aircraft of choice. I got a caution warning after take off follweded bt an immediate down pitch of the nose. The aircraft stalled and dived to the ground. What am I doing wrong???
Without watching you do it, it's very, very difficult to answer. If you join VirtualFlight.Online, you should be able to do a screen share in the Discord server at some point - then somebody should be able to help you :)
with turboprops in general, how do you know how much to feather the props?
Look in the book. Most of them tend to advise about 70% - matching that with 70% on the throttles. Like I said - read the documentation - it will vary based on temperature and altitude.
is the vnav working in dis thing?
I have a real hard time managing power while taxi in this plane. I must be doing something wrong because whenever I release the parking brake after start up the plane jolts forward even when throttles are idle
That's because the real thing has positive thrust at idle - especially if you go for high-idle (which the real-world pilots VERY rarely use).
hopefully someone will take this on and make a full working mod addition.
There are some mods for the King Air available - if you search the internet they will come up :)
@@jonbeckett Thank you will check this out.
If I ever have the opportunity to buy a private aircraft I would choose a turboprop over a light jet. But that's a big IF. I still have to get a pilots license and that is years away.
What hardware do I need to start? Is it possible to start on the 350 or should the beginner train on a trainer?
Just google requirements for MSFS. You can try to fly anything you like in a simulator :)
why does my plane shut down when i give it condition when u said on the ground?
Could be lots of reasons
wow this taught me nothing i was looking for
thank you
You're welcome. Maybe I'll go write a similar comment on a video about teapots.
I seem to have a problem when starting up... I start the engines but when I'm about to taxi everything electrical shuts off and then it comes up with a message about turning on the electrical system for radio 😕😕
You're not turning the generators on. Or maybe the inverters ?
in my msfs the middle screen of the aircraft is blank and i cant use it
do you know about that?
Middle screen would need the avionics to be powered up.
Is the VNAV working on the stock version?
I have no idea - I rarely use VNAV.
wellll since the Aerosoft Twin Otter is rubbish as of june 2023 I'd figure why not try the King Air with a mod of course by watching another educational video by Jonathan Beckett . I know this is before the mod but to get an idea on how to fly this aeroplane I think would benifit me Greatly.
The black square mod is very good for the King Air :)
@@jonbeckett I am just using the CFG mod .
@@mikecoffee100use the black square mod buddy
Is there a wind indicator? I can’t find it anywhere
That's a really good question - if you press the menu button on the central console, then use the touch screen in front of the pilot, you can probably find the weather there.
@@jonbeckett I found the wind indicator through the GPS. This King Air seems to be vastly underpowered compared to the real one. I stalled while climbing to 30,000 ft with only 70% fuel. There is a yt vid of a real King Air pilot saying the msfs version is underpowered, but I don’t know if Asobo has made any changes since then.
@@johndfw8680 I believe there is a mod for it over at flightsim.to that corrects the engine power. It's worth noting that not all King Airs are the same model...
Why is my torque so low?
For fseconomy !
Does this king air come with ms flight sim?
Yes.
You will buy the Black Square version I guess!
I already did :)
Not sure if anyone can help me but I can’t for the life of me get the nose wheel to steer. It works in the f-18 but not the beech king. I don’t know what to do.
First step - if you have been meddling with the controller profiles - is to revert to the default profile for your controller and see if that resolves it. There IS a nosewheel steering axis that is independent of the rudder - some aircraft use it, some don't. It may be you just need to map it to your controls appropriately.
@@jonbeckett Thanks, I reset all controls to default but there was no key for it. I know the buttons work because it works on the f-18. I have the nose wheel steering axis and limit set and the g-limiter set. Cant seem to toggle to get the wheel to work tho. I didn’t know there is another key for the rudder steering. Is it just using the rudder or is there another name for the control. If it just the rudder the plane barely most when I use it.
Ok so using the rudder to turn works so long as I don’t click the nose wheel steering limit button or the g-limiter button
But how to set autopilot
That requires a book, not a comment :) It's not that difficult once you learn a few different aircraft in the simulator.
I was sitting on the ground and my plane power just went off and would not power back up.
Flat battery. You need the engines on, and the generators running.
@@jonbeckett that's the interesting part of the problem. I did have them on. But everytime I turn the battery back on it makes a noise until I turn it off.
Same problem for me
Ummm...You had reverse thrusters? My MSFS 2020 model of this plane does not appear to have reverse thrust nor spoilers.
Reverse pitch. Well this is the stock version in MSFS - so you just haven't configured your controllers to allow it.
@@jonbeckett yeah, I figured out the problem. I had a joystick button programmed to toggle reverse thrust. But for some reason the reverse thrust toggle function does not work. I had to reprogram the button instead to reduce thrust. So now the button takes it from 0 throttle to negative throttle, thus giving me reverse thrust. Problem solved.
@@BillSmith-rx9rm It's probably because of the axis you are using for throttle. There are two - 0-100, and basic "throttle".
I’d fly this purely for the nostalgia of Jurassic Park III.
I can't seem to figure out how to shut the engines down lol
Cut the fuel to them :)
Hope you're connected to a gpu, starting both engines off battery definitely doesn't work irl haha
I've only flown a C90 but I was thinking the same. I believe I would lay off all the lighting and such too until post start-up.
You can start both engines without a gpu. You do have to push the right condition lever to high idle to be able to start the left engine.
can the doors open?
No - the external model is the same as the default MSFS one. The Black Square changes are all within the cockpit.
Leevers? Never play with leever A, just leever B.
I know it doesn't matter in the game but seeing you turn avionics on before engine start and starting both engines at the same time made me cringe
It's only a game :) That being said, the Kodiak now punishes you for abusing the engines - you can destroy them *very* easily :)
I thought that rule of thumb only applies to steam gauges.
Do all the autopilot buttons work with this version?
Well... this is just the stock version in the simulator - without loading it up, and taking a look, it's difficult to know what you mean by "all" the buttons. A lot of the buttons on the centre pedestal don't work. I imagine that's all going to change when the Black Square mod appears that turns it into an analogue gauge aircraft :)
@@jonbeckett thanks!
Not how I would start the engines (7000 hrs flying B1900) really wrong way demonstrated in this video!
The early version of the King Air that appeared in Flight Simulator isn't realistic :) The Black Square version is much more accurate.
3,950 hours. Bout 800 in the 350 and a thousand in the CE680. Hope I don’t become a know it all at 7000. It’s just a game. Some pilots are embarrassing. Great video, sir.
@@justinabbott8481 Yes, I enjoyed the video as well.he flew it pretty well, giving me the impression he was trying to make it real. That's why I pointed it out. Not for any other reason.
@@justinabbott8481 Oh and after 7000 hours or so, with 6000 being a check and training captain is was my job to know it all.
@@chrisminchin854 Everybody looooooovvves a know it all. At least you own it. No biggie. It’s just a video about a video game. If he were representing Flight Safety we’d both be criticizing the video, I suppose.
CLEARLY THIS GUY HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE IS DOING.
Nobody who types in all caps knows what they are doing either;)