Beechcraft Premier IA

THE AIRCRAFT

Meet Beechcraft Premier IA

The Premier IA is a twin-jet business aircraft with retractable tricycle gear and a Collins-based flight deck. Hawker Beechcraft’s 2010 service announcement identifies Pro Line 21-equipped Premier IAs and a WAAS/LPV avionics upgrade. It captures a period when satellite-based approach capability was being added to an established light-business-jet cockpit.

Research-based aircraft backgroundmedia.txtav.com · Beechcraft Premier IA — aircraft background and systems ↗

HOW IT CAME TO BE

History & design

An avionics development chapter

Hawker Beechcraft’s November 2010 announcement offered WAAS upgrades for Pro Line 21-equipped Premier IA aircraft. The service added LPV capability to the listed fleet configuration. That historical upgrade is distinct from the equipment documented in a particular simulator edition.

media.txtav.com · Beechcraft Premier IA — aircraft background and systems ↗

Manufacturer support announcement, 11 November 2010.

A composite cabin and a revised landing system

The Premier combined a composite fuselage with a swept aluminum wing. Thomas B. Haines describes its emergence in 1998 and certification in 2001: the thin composite shell made room for a larger cabin without simply adding the weight of a conventional structure. The later IA addressed early complaints about braking and lift-dump operation and revised the cabin.

The wing occupied its own compromise. Sweep helped cruise performance, while the resulting approach speeds and runway needs mattered at the other end of the flight. Extensive trailing-edge flaps left limited room for ailerons, so computer-controlled hydraulic spoilers assisted roll.

AOPA, Thomas B. Haines · Raytheon Premier IA: Diary of a teenage jet ↗

UNDER THE SKIN

Systems & details

Carenado’s Collins cockpit

Carenado’s B390 MSFS product documents Collins FGP/DCP controls, twin jet propulsion and retractable tricycle gear. The separate X-Plane listing concerns its own simulator rendition.

Carenado B390 MSFS product features.

www.carenado.com · B390 MSFS2020 – Carenado ↗

FROM THE COCKPIT

Pilot accounts

Thomas B. Haines

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Haines contrasts the early automatic lift-dump arrangement with the IA controls and emphasizes managing speed for landing. The account concerns the aircraft he flew; it does not establish how a simulator models its brakes or spoiler logic.

AOPA Pilot, February 2021; firsthand Premier IA review

Read the full account · AOPA, Thomas B. Haines ↗

VIRTUAL VERSIONS

In your simulator

No released simulator product is listed for this aircraft in the developers reviewed. Announced products are excluded.

GO TO THE SOURCE

Manuals & resources

Read the original documentation from the people who created it. Manuals open on their publisher’s website.

AIRCRAFT AND FEEL

Built-in force-feedback profiles

Read the documentary basis, editable starting settings and remaining questions for the aircraft you fly. Each explanation refers to the exact profile revision shown.

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