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Hi all, will someone help me with taxiing in the king air? i have tried everything i know to try but cant taxi in the king air unless i constantly pump the breaks causing the plane to bounce up and down. I use the F1 key to cut the throttle but it goes right back to taxiing at 40 plus without breaks. Any help is greatly appreciated, I love to fly this plane but hate taxiing to and from runway.
TRflyman

Hi, You need to reduce your prop pitch to fine while taxi-ing. This will stop the aircraft running away with itself,
Cheers

I would highly reccomend getting a joystick. It allows you to control the throttle much more precisely than with a keyboard. It also immerses you much more in the game. You don't have to go out and buy a $50 joystick. I got mine for $20, and it works great.

I would highly reccomend getting a joystick. It allows you to control the throttle much more precisely than with a keyboard. It also immerses you much more in the game. You don't have to go out and buy a $50 joystick. I got mine for $20, and it works great.

With that plane, joystick or not, it does it

Make sure your mixture control is at low idle.  This reduces the torque and will help slow you down.  Just make sure you increase it to full for takeoff, or else you won't have enough power.  This is how its down in the real world as well.  Plus you can tap the F2 button once to place the throttle into the beta range.  Usually the real world turboprop pilots don't use the prop lever to control taxi.

Thanks for the help all. I do use a joystick but still use the keyboard for some functions. I tried moving the prop conditioner to just above feathering and it helped some I will try the idle adjustment. I tried this before when I first flew this plane but kept cutting the engines out. One of the reasons I quit flying it and just stuck with the Baron.
Thanks again for the help

When moving the mixture back, you don't want to go all the way, just to the low idle setting on the panel screen.  Otherwise it will cut out.  Try that and using the throttle control tip I gave you and you should be taxing slow in no time.  ;)