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Originally Posted by Chick Webb
While it is a single-pilot aircraft, it can be (and is) used to teach both multi-engine ops and CRM. It is an important platform for transitioning to from single-pilot to multi-pilot, multi-engine aircraft for a number of militaries, including in the US. My oldest son received his ratings in the USN/Marines version of the King Air (T-44C) just a couple of years ago. He moved on from that to a C-130, taking his CRM training and knowledge with him.
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The military has to work within the constraints it has, but the King Air family is not a good airplane for teaching crew flying and CRM. It is an easily flown airplane that is stable and slow. The military would be better off teaching CRM in a jet aircraft where the pilot flying has his hands full flying the plane while the pilot monitoring does everything else.