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1500 hours in Legacy models and NG/NGX...I agree, pretty damn far from unreliable. I'm trying to think back to if a PC12 has ever let me sit somewhere and I don't believe one ever has. Early NGs had growing pains with the Honeywell equipment, but a lot of that was pilot induced, i.e. pilots not...

To me, as a PC12 pilot, that has PC12 written all over it. PM me if you want to talk performance numbers. On the PC12 westbound on those far trips (I used LWM to FCM in my example) you'd be in the airplane for 4-4.5 hrs. If you fly all the way up at 28 or 30 thousand feet, you're looking at a...

Just let them know in plain English how you'll be navigating. Example, VFR flight following from AAA to BBB following the coastline for sightseeing. They'll take care of you if they can.

I reached out to both K&K in East Troy WI, and the Spinner Repairs ASEI people for quotes a few months ago. Never heard anything from Spinner Repairs. Kim at K&K gave me a great price and was really quick about it, did great work.

I'd argue that you can get quite a bit of work done on only 350 horsepower. Hot glass, boots, actual weather radar, and a pressurized cabin. 22 gph to move a few people along at 180-200 knots with all that looks pretty good when you compare it to a comparable pressurized piston twin.

About 500 FPM. Takes a long time to get up there! Worth it if you're going long range or able to get above some of the weather. It'll do up to FL250 and the cabin will be between 8 and 9 thousand. If you do the aux tank STC (drilling an extra hole outboard of each fuel cap) you can put an...

800FPM at 35" and 2500 RPM is pretty much best case scenario. Load it up to max or put it at a high DA and it'll be a bit less. Piper has advised that you can hold 42" (redline) for the duration of the climb...but I'd never do that if it was my airplane, nor do I do that in customer or company...

It's just too light on power to carry the airplane uphill at a good enough rate or high enough airspeed. Boots work better the faster you go, a heavy Malibu slogging it uphill through ice at say, 130 knots (which is a pretty typical climb for a Malibu, I usually pitch for 125 or 5 degrees nose...

I have four winters and 1000 hours in PA46s from Mirage/M350s through the M600. Don't count on climbing through ice in a Malibu. You can descend through it, you can even hang out in some ice if you really want to...you just absolutely cannot climb through anything more than trace to light ice...

You saw, you avoided...the system worked.

Welcome! South central PA also here. Let me know if you have any questions about your flight training journey! When I'm not flying for work or fun, I'm into flight sims also. The new MSFS and IL2 Great Battles series currently.

Sounds like if you're there overnight you might have a few mins to read over the systems descriptions sections of your POH...I'm not a substitute for that but I'll tell you that your Arrows gear is held up by hydraulic pressure only. Depending on how tight your system is, they may stay up for a...

Glad to have you here, Joe!

Seawind is a tough bird, to be sure! As with most tricycle gear airplanes, the nose gear is the weakest part of the Seawind.

Unbelievable. I'll supplement my previous opinion. I have a bit more than 300 hours in the Seawind...I feel qualified enough to say: Dennis in Traverse City, you sir, are a moron. You're lucky to be alive. Try to find a hobby that keeps you a bit closer to the ground.

Saw that earlier today while I was browsing Barnstormers...I think Dennis in Traverse City should pick a hobby a little closer to the ground!

Interesting, I guess it sold then. I've had a few calls about it in semi recent history. The thing has been for sale forever. As somebody mentioned above, the Seawind has some very unique characteristics, very demanding airplane to fly.

Dave - you will find that additional backpressure on the stick will fix a lot of the landing problems you might have. If I had to guess, you were very flat in the landing attitude with minimal backpressure, and you were working the nose strut which those two together started the oscillations...

Welcome, John! Located in south central PA, but I fly PC12s and PA46s for work and end up on Long Island every now and then. Spent a night at ISP just a few weeks ago.