The MU-2 is a BEAST: two 715 HP Garret/Honeywell turboprops.
A heavy airplane, but that is offset by the engine power. Flies, climbs and cruises like a real badass machine…. 290 knots true at FL280.
Great flyer, handles REALLY well. So much so that I had issues with overcontrolling it. Lands fast, and at an odd attitude, but is very doable once you get used to the hard nose-down attitude and sight picture on short final.
Fast as hell too: 280+ knots all day long. Yet flies 135 in the pattern.
I’d still be training except the trainer had to go to his other job as a corporate jet pilot…but that is ok, as now I have more time to study and internalize the stuff that I learned. It was, for a while, like drinking from a firehose, but I managed to absorb enough, I think.
Once I get certified I’m gonna burn a LOT of jet fuel.
Seriously.
you forgot to mention how noisy MU-2’s are
especially when taxiing
I you are around ANY turboprop or jet without hearing protection, that is a problem.
The Garrets are just a tiny bit louder than the PW PT-6 and less than most jets.
Like most aviation legends, it is kinda overblown.