SimuFlite’s level-C King Air 200 simulator can be transformed in a few hours from round instruments to a B200 model’s EFIS gear.|
Morning light was just beginning to illuminate the New York City skyline in soft shades of lilac and pale vermilion as I swung the King Air 200 onto John F. Kennedy International Airport’s Runway 31 Right. Cleared for takeoff, I asked my copilot to set the power as I held the brakes and kept an eye on the gauges. The airplane shuttered from the torque of its twin Pratt & Whitney PT6s as the engines came to life. I laid a hand atop the throttles, gripped the yoke perhaps a little too tightly with the other and set us loose down the 10,000-foot-long runway.
