We received the Baron 58 Configuration from Redbird yesterday. Todd Willinger presided over the installation I installed the panel and throttle quadrant into the sim and connected it to te internet. Todd did his magic and we went thru caibrating the throttles mixture and prop controls. After that it was time to fly.
I'm not multi engine rated so I asked Ihab if he would come over to fly it. He was in Stamford so he couldnt make it for the test. I walked next door looking for Johhny P. from Highcroft racing who owns a Cessna 310 that he keeps in the hangar connected to our building. Those guys are on the road so that was a dead end. So...I did the testing.
Ihab goes to me 'it flys like a single engine airplane just fly it' so there I went. I took off from DXR and went around the pattern and noticed that the throttles were split for anything other than full and idle so I called Todd again and he ran me thru the calibration exercise while I was on the phone with him.
Then I spent the afternoon flying it in exotic places. I went to Freeport Bahama, Leadville Co, Los Angeles, Oshkosh WI Key West. Rich the mechanic came over and at first said the engine failures were not realistic, until he secured the failed engine. I did all sorts of single engine operations.
Yuval stopped in to see me about a sudent we're going to be sharing and I let him have a crack at flying it. He gave it his approval!
The fuel system management is not there, the start procedure fires both engines at the same time. There is no prop synch switch so those are the only complaints so far.
Its a blast to fly.
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