How does the Beechcraft work?

[jrpilot]

I heard the BeechCraft 1900D has no autopilot..or nav?..or something like that...can someone tell me then how the pilot fly's the aircraft I mean I guess there has to be some sort of autopilot...but haw would you fly the nav. profile?....I know this question seems distorted but i don't know how to word it

[Craig.]

contrary to popular belief aircraft dont need an autopilot to fly, it certainly helps pilots but you dont have that luxury on all aircraft. However i am not familliar with the 1900 so i cant comment on the systems.

[Nexus]

It has an autopilot allright. (actually it's a dual installation)
The panel is a little similar to the Super King Air we find in FS.
The autopilot/flight director system and "FMS" is made by industry leading Rockwell Collins which basicly provides all avionics for the Beech's, business jets, CRJ's and other RJ's....

With those avioncis you can fly as flawless as the b737...BUT, as you see I put the FMS in quotation marks above and that's a reason for it. Although the Beech 1900 probably has a Vertical navigation computer installed, you have to remember that a vnav computer knows virtually NOTHING about the performance of the airplane. A true FMS does.
An FMS can give you the most efficient climb rate, or if any given angle will result in fastest climb rate etc.

A basic vnav computer cannot tell weither a climb or descent at a certain point is advisable or not (ie too far away from dest. airport)

But like Crag said, it's not necessary to have all those fancy avionics, pilots flies the airplane just fine without it, but it will require more attention from the crew which can be tiresome in the long run

OTTOL can give us more info about this (may even corrrect me on the Beech, since I'm not 100% sure) hopefully he spots this thread

[OTTOL]

.....don't know nothin' bout' no turboprops!!  ???

What you guys stated is all correct though. The 1900, as far as I know is, for all practical purposes, a stretched KingAir and shares many of the same avionics, including Autopilot.
Craig is correct, many of the pilots here have no experience other than " you just line up the airplane on the ILS with the Autopilot". In real life, we look for any excuse to manually fly the airplane on a visual approach or fly a "raw data"(no A/P and no Flight Director)approach by hand. I have had the autopilot fail at high altitude on several occasions. It's a little more "loose" at 410 but manageable.

An airplane, is an airplane, is an airplane. To use the old expression. You can fly little ones and big ones without an Autopilot.
To answer your question(I think)...........No, the 1900 does indeed have an Autopilot and Navigation gear to boot!  ;D