Hey Jeremy,

I've got a few flights on P-200 KingCat's, and they have their fun and tough times. Landings were a pain until I found the right setting for the flaps, and crow. I ended up with 48 degrees of flaps at full flap with 7 degree's of up aileron for the crow. Made the plane act much like a standard KingCat on final and in the landing pattern. I had one of the first KingCat's and she is still around with over 780 flights on her. She now has a Titan SE on her again. About 450 of those were with the 200; I would have to check the log book to verify. I had the boom upgrades on and that was it. I never pulled a lot of hard G's, I just don't fly that way. I routinely fly way out and around. Fastest we ever saw mine go with a radar gun was 199.254 mph. I'll let you figure out the real number there. I have flown a KingCat for Boeing that has a turned up P-200 on it and is a bit on the porky side; 58 pounds dry, around 67 pounds full. She ran a couple of flights wide open for 7 minutes and we landed on fumes. Eagle tree system read 199.294 mph on the staright aways and 199.288 mph in the turns. Those two flights were the toughest of my life, a bit on the fast side and no fun at all. Felt like I was hanging on the entire time. The big key is to install the engine where you have the weight centered over the mounts, just like a regular engine installation. I had to cut holes in mine and the Boeing model for the starter to do this.

Give me a call if you want to talk.

217-778-7680.