Estimated time to complete:
- 60 minutes

Aircraft:
- Beechcraft Baron 58

Objectives:
- Handling Vmc and Drag Demos in the Baron

 

For the Drag Demo you will fully feather one engine and look at how various speeds and drag items affect your rate of descent.

You will shutdown the left engine and adjust the power so you are maintaining a constant altitude during the exercise.

Ref.: West, Jeff Van. Microsoft Flight Simulator X For Pilots: Real World Training. Wiley. Kindle Edition(Location 12985).

MISSION'S SCENARIOS

Drag Demo

  1. Initial Conditions
    1. You are near Seattle at 3000 feet MSL.
    2. You are level, on a heading of 330º.
    3. Your speed is 101 knots.
  2. Hold that heading.
  3. Shut down the left engine with the fuel selector.
  4. Feather the prop.
  5. Open the "Cowl Flaps" on the right engine.
  6. Adjust the power so you are maintening a constant altitude.
  7. It should require about 22 inches of MP with full rpm.
  8. This is your baseline, you won't touch the power for the rest of the demo.
  9. Try flying at "Vyse - 10" knots or 91 knots:
    1. You will see an initial climb.
    2. Don't adjust the power, hold to this 91 knots.
    3. You will start coming back down at about -300 fpm.
  10. Try flying "Vyse + 10" knots, or 111 knots:
    1. You will see a big drop at first.
    2. Then you will settle down to a steady rate of descent at about -400 fpm.
  11. Return to 101 knots and you will get back to level flight.
  12. Drop the gear and record your descent.
  13. Add approach flaps
  14. Add full flaps.
  15. Try gear up and full flaps.
  16. You can record your rate of descent with each configuration.
  17. A configuration table is accessible for printing from the Mission Browser window.

MAPS & CHARTS

Figure 23-20b Rate of Descent Table: