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09-13-2011 | 02:09 PM

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zyttocs

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Ok...maybe not can't, but as said, without a tiller you'll be fighting it and riding the brakes. At least that's my experience with King Airs...don't know about the others.

09-13-2011 | 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by zyttocs

Turbo props cant taxi on one engine because of the substantial Asymetrical thrust with the engines being so far of center line....we would just go in circles.....

Single engine taxi on the ATR was a norm for us. As for smaller aircraft, I've seen the Dornier for Vision taxi single engine. I'm not sure about the King Air but one would think you could keep an engine feathered.

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Originally Posted by galaxy flyer

If you need to taxi on one to save fuel, get a better ranged plane. Most airports used by corporates have less than 5 minute taxi times anyway. I have at Mumbai and Delhi where waits can stretch to an hour.

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I don't think the concept of single engine taxi has to do with fuel consumption for range as much as it does for $$

Yes, I understand range still plays a part also, clearly.

09-13-2011 | 03:04 PM

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Yeah, I understand saving fuel, ex-Eastern Airlines, but saving a few bucks on fuel isn't in the corporate program. Besides, when we only fly a plane 400 hours a year, the savings are much less. It isn't like an airline where the plane spends a considerable percentage of its time on the ground taxiing. If a bizje spends 12 minutes taxiing per day, it is a normal.

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09-13-2011 | 03:34 PM

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The ONLY time I ever single-engine taxi is when I'm on an FBO ramp, pulling in to park, and there are passengers boarding/deplaning on either side of me; in that instance I'll often shut the same side engine down as a courtesy so they don't have to deal with the noise.

Besides, I can save FAR more fuel by how I fly the airplane than I could ever save with SE taxi.

09-15-2011 | 06:36 AM

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I always taxi single engine, but I am flying a PC-12, so that is a little different.

09-15-2011 | 07:07 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zyttocs

Turbo props cant taxi on one engine because of the substantial Asymetrical thrust with the engines being so far of center line....we would just go in circles.....

Nope,
Used to taxi a Metro on a single engine from time to time. It was a PITA but doable. I think I even remember taxiing a BE-200 on one. No tiller on either one.

09-15-2011 | 06:02 PM

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Tried it with a C310 once, was a royal pain. I could see it being ok in some jets, but as mentioned above, not worth the fuel savings in the corp market since it's just not an issue like in the airlines.

09-16-2011 | 12:34 AM

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Remember when I had to try and taxi a C402 on one donk after a starter motor failed after refuelling at a bowser. A drunk driver in a steering challenged car would have driven a straighter line than I achieved that day.

09-16-2011 | 08:36 PM

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Used to do it in an Aerostar with no problem.

09-17-2011 | 07:39 AM

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CJ4 has single engine taxi (and start up of the other engine just prior to T/O) built into the checklists - so Cessna can sell it as a "green" jet: fewer carbons spewed forth with all that taxiing and sitting around waiting for T/O clearance.

We never do it.