Mickael

  you should know that King airs are 160 Knts indicated  in every attitude You shouldn’t pick on the king air just because it drinks 90 to 100 gallions of Jet-a / hr .It is only a tad faster that the mu-2 and just a tad slower than the near jet –from cessna The problem with the King air is the wing is the same wing box as the beach 18 . Hadn’t changed the depth of the wing for ever  at Beech - Gross weight is 12500  I used to fly it at fl 350  out of Colorado to Texas in the early 80’s and started a slow descent to my  destination , That was the only time I saw faster speeds than 160 indicated .I flue one for 4 years and after being in it that long I forgot how to fly . The plane is so easy to fly you forget how to do pilot stuff . It was an old  gentleman’s plane . I flue a G-2 all over the world for several years before that and the King air was a kick back easy plane to fly.  Bill Maddox

  [ Citations are the only planes faa certified to take bird sticks in the tail ]