Originally Posted by
E2CMaster
Combat flying in a King Air is pretty easy aside from the congestion and people occasionally shooting at you.
So the King Airs are regularly being shot at?
I've not heard this from the many peers doing the job.
Certain aircraft/aircrew doing my job in specific locations have been fired on, yet the techniques for flying the planes/missions vary only in the slightest (they may fly faster doing the ILS low approach maneuvers for instance), but I don't see how this 'combat flying' would prove any more useful than any other type of CL-601 flying. Matter of fact - I'm sure that other operators would probably not be very impressed if they saw the aircraft operated in such a manner on final
One particular story of combat flying the King Airs that was related to me in Iraq involved PPOS hold and studying for their Master's degree.