I landed a KingAir twice- On our way back from dropping off some business passengers in Canada, the KingAir pilot invited me to trade places with him, and hold it straight and level (guess he thought I needed the practice worse than the autopilot did), then he went to the back to update his approach plates. This was a zillion years ago, and all my time up to that point was in a 150 and a 172, and I was still several hours away from the IR checkride. An hour or so later, he reappeared as we approached our stateside destination. He talked me down the glide slope, and refused to let me swing the yoke over to him- he said, "I ain't got no brakes over here. It's all yours." The landing was smooth enough that he let me take off again after Customs got done with us, and fly it all the way home from there. So, I suppose I'm living proof that any idiot private pilot can, with enough verbal instruction, land a KingAir, and even be able to use the airplane again. We don't want these stories to get out, though. If people thought any ordinary mortal could fly complicated airplanes, nobody would ever invite us to their parties again, would they?
Wow. The passengers are lucky. It says the right seater had some single engine experience but a King Air is not exactly a 172. Kudos to those controllers!
