King Air 350 X-Plane 11 tutorial by KA350 Pilot | Part 3 of 3

[@Peterahonsifitness]

You have the best tutoriAls for king air on youtube, deserve my views great work Sir.

[@BlueSkyPilot.]

Easy top of decent calculation.. Your cruise Altitude is FL260. Airport Elevation is 1000ft MSL. You want to be 1500ft above the airport elevation upon arrival at the airport. Add the airport elevation and the height at which you want to be above that eleavtion together, In this case it would be 2500ft.. Airport Elev 1000ft + height above 1500ft = 2500ft.. Now subtract 2500ft from your cruise altitude of 26000ft. This gives you 23500ft.. Drop the zeros and add a decimal to give you 23.5nm.. Now multiply 23.5 x 3 for a decent path of 3°.. =70.5 Nautical miles, This is the distance in nautical miles that you need to start your descent from your cruise Altitude of FL260 to arrive at the airport 1500ft above the ground or above the airport elevation of 1000ft Simply put if you start your descent at that distance from the airport you will arrive at 2500ft MSL upon arriving at the airport. If you wish to arrive at this Altitude 5nm before the airport simply add 5nm to 70.5nm to get 75.5nm then start your decent from that distance.. Your rate of decent will simply depend upon your ground speed.. For example- Ground speed is 200 knots, Simply multiply 200 knots times 5.. This =1000fpm Your rate of vertical descent should be 1000ft per minute with a ground speed of 200 knots.. This will vary slightly depending on the varying of your ground speed, simply recalculate it if your ground speed increases or decreases always multiply by 5 to get your rate of descent.. I know that was a mouthful but it's actually very simple once you've done it a few times and it works like a charm no matter the altitude or ground speed.. And with a 3ﾟ glide path this works for anything when trying to reach a specific altitude at an airport or a fix, or waypoint or any other position that the distance can be calculated.. Hope this helps anyone trying to manually calculate top of descent without the aid of an on board computer to do it for you. Thanks! N9823L

[@SamCooper373]

Thank you for all of these! Just what I needed.

[@GEP815]

Thank you for your excellent videos on the Airfoillabs. They are really useful to get up and running. I have a few questions, what fuel burn do you use for flight planning and how do you determine the cruise altitude, is it based on route length?

[@chazflyz]

Fuel burn will depend on altitude. We use flight planning software to compute our flight plans and fuel burns. Typical fuel flow per engine at FL210 is 420 lbs/hour. Yes altitude selection is generally based on distance. 10% rule. 200nm. No higher than FL200. Again general rule but if there are weather or operational requirements, then adjust as needed.

[@eduardodavilamartinez7022]

Thanks for your King Air video series! I love this plane and I have it to learn with your instructions. Can you share with me how to program the Honeycomb Bravo switches and selectors? Maybe some screenshots of what selection you made in the Xplane 11 scheduler

[@mxcollin95]

Excellent, excellent tutorials! I just got typed in the 350i and your videos are a huge help, especially going forward figuring out how to practice on Xplane! I really appreciate your videos and if you had a patreon account I’d definitely send a few bucks your way! 👏🤙

[@chazflyz]

Congrats! Which avionics package will you be flying? PL21? G1000? Ah don't worry about the donation. Thankfully I have a day job. (There is Patreon link in the video description. The money goes right back to the channel.)

[@mxcollin95]

@@chazflyz proline 21. Thanks again for the great content!

[@PilotWannabe]

...you should map your throttles to "Toggle Beta" 1 and 2. The result is no engine surging when entering or leaving beta mode. Great series!

[@chazflyz]

Thanks. I initially did play around with the beta and reverse mappings, but since the Bravo has only 1 true physical detent, I just mapped reverse. But yes I typically taxi in ground fine in the real world although in XP it seems too powerful at times.

[@donrumsey]

I’m having issues with my detent and toggling beta. Ideas?

[@goncalo1888]

Hey! Love your videos! Do you have documentation you'd like to share, like Takeoff, crz and ldg, as well as an AFM? It would be wonderful!

[@melito1955]

I acquired it 4 months ago, but I have not been able to handle it on the road track, and I use Yoke FLIGTH SIM stop flying on it

[@ronylanssiers7694]

Curious to know where you got the green livery from the thumbnail?

[@guilhermecostadacruz2158]

Hello thanks for your videos. How much is the Fuel Consumption on the BE350 for a Quick endurance calculation by memory, a rough figure let's say...

[@chazflyz]

General rule thumb is about 800 lbs (total) per hour works good.

[@guilhermecostadacruz2158]

@@chazflyz Thank you Capt

[@suncleTV]

Is it possible for KA350 to taxi after landing, with one engine off? Ive seen it on an ATR72. Would like to know if its possible, and which engine should be preferably running. An ATC and XP11 simmer here.

[@chazflyz]

I've never done it in real world ops- just the sim and it seems to be ok aside from lots of rudder input not surprisingly. There is no published single engine taxi procedure in the airplane flight manual... but if I was to shut an engine down for taxi, it would be the left engine.

[@suncleTV]

@@chazflyz that explains, why I never see any B350 coming to our airfield with single engine taxi operation after touchdown. Many thanks Captain 👍

[@elijahshemar9573]

Greetings from the Philippines, I use X11 and I bought this airplane on sale awhile back, what version is this? I have auto trim failure, why? Great video by the way, thank you

[@chazflyz]

When I recorded this video, the King Air 350 version was 1.4 . It is currently 1.5x. There were many improvements added.

[@elijahshemar9573]

@@chazflyz yes I just updated mine to.1.5.3 now I see the GTN750

[@panhakhmer6224]

Nice 😊

[@Rotatesim]

Hello captain, i have a question: is there any flight profile images as normal procedures in real world poh for king 350?...

[@chazflyz]

Hi. The real world POH does not have flight profile images. The FlightSafety training manual has images, but they are copyright so I cannot use them in my videos.

[@Rotatesim]

@@chazflyz Is possible you share with me that manual?... total discretion

[@chazflyz]

@@Rotatesim Sorry, unable due to copyright distribution.

[@Rotatesim]

@@chazflyz thanks captain vl

[@massimodalessandro9259]

Hi Chaz, regarding pressurization, 1:43 is this adjustment done even at a max service ceiling of 35000 feet before descent starts? Put another way, is there a certain altitude where the pressurization adjustment is made? Thanks!!

[@chazflyz]

Hey. Yes we will make that adjustment as we begin our descent from any altitude.

[@pgreenx]

Can you please confirm my understanding that your speed before touchdown is 125 KIAS? I read the book and said 100-109 based on weight. thanks

[@chazflyz]

Real world operations typically use 125 as the approach speed in case of an engine failure. At around 200-400 feet above the ground we begin slowing to Vref (100-109).

[@pgreenx]

@@chazflyz thanks!

[@JetfighterPL]

Hi great tutorial :) Question: how to set baro minimum? :)

[@chazflyz]

On the autopilot panel, you can only set the DH (Decision Height, height above ground level) from the instrument approach chart. DA (decision altitude) or baro mins cannot be set. In the Pro Line 21 avionics that I fly, we can set both, almost always Baro Mins.

[@JetfighterPL]

@@chazflyz thanks for clarity

[@mikecoster2709]

How did you set up the beta range for the throttles on the bravo? I just got the the bravo quadrant and haven’t been able to set it up properly.

[@chazflyz]

In the x-plane settings, under JOYSTICK.. device BRAVO THROTTLE QUADRANT... for each throttle, you will see EDIT RESPONSE CURVE. click that and another window will open. You will see Has beta/reverse detents. Check that and you can set the beta and reverse points as desired.

[@mikecoster2709]

@@chazflyz I’ve done that, I just wish that you could set the beta range to actually correspond with the area on the throttle below the physical detect area. I have been able to accomplish it by using negative numbers within the beta and reverse curves, but the actual slowing of the plane doesn’t happen, as it still doesn’t model the area below the detent area regarding the engine.

[@etienneleroux6253]

Are the condition levers left in the low idle position for the entire flight? Looks like they get left that way since the after-start checks? If so, do you guys ever leave them in high idle?

[@chazflyz]

Yes we leave them in low idle. Even the manufacturer's checklist does not require the condition levers in high idle for flight. Those levers do not affect engine performance in flight. Some pilots may move them to high idle just prior to takeoff as technique in case someone's hands accidentally knocked the levers back... which would be very rare to impossible.

[@etienneleroux6253]

@@chazflyz ok great, thanks!

[@mxcollin95]

Any chance you could do a quick video on what action binding you have for the buttons on your bravo throttle quadrant? I’ve been having trouble getting the right actions selected as I’m sure other our having that prob too. It’d would be nice to be able to hit all the autopilot function buttons on the bravo throttle quadrant and have them work just like they do in the real plane. P.s. Totally understand if you don’t have time to show us that. Thanks for your great videos! 👍

[@chazflyz]

To be honest, I'm probably not the best person to make a video on the bindings. I know the HC configurator is very complex and customizable, but I just kept it simple. However, we can meet on Discord if you want and I can just go over my settings and how I programmed them.

[@mxcollin95]

@@chazflyz ya man that would be a huge help as I’m pretty new to xplane. Unfortunately tho I’m just getting ready to fly to Pasco, WA today for work and I’ll be up there until the 1st. It’d be cool tho if we could catch up when I get back. 🤙

[@chazflyz]

@@mxcollin95 yeah sounds good. My discord link is in the video description. It's easy to join. Drop me a PM on Discord as well. We can hop on voice.

[@mxcollin95]

@@chazflyz sounds good!

[@flyingwitharnold8942]

Did you have a way to bind beta mode on the honeycomb throttle? Didn't know if there was a solution for that

[@chazflyz]

Since the Bravo has only 1 switch detent (real KA350 has 2- ground fine/beta and reverse), you can only assign 1 or the other. But there is an option to adjust the slider when you get below a certain threshold just before you hit the physical Honeycomb detent, it will go into ground fine/beta. Then you can map Reverse to the detent switch.

[@chazflyz]

Following up and to be more specific. In the config tab for the throttle, you will see EDIT RESPONSE CURVE. That opens a separate window THROTTLE (1 or 2) AXIS RESPONSE CURVE. At the lower left of the window, there is "has beta/reverse detents". Check that box. By doing that, you can set the points at which your throttle goes into beta and reverse. Obviously as we know, there is only 1 physical detent on the the Bravo so you'll have to make your own "virtual" detent. Hope that helps.

[@flyingwitharnold8942]

@@chazflyz Thanks. I appreciate the follow up, safe flying my friend 🤘🏼