I’ll hold you to that.
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i can do the tea… I work on the railway it means i am quilified to make tea 
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perfect sim seat project there 
… and your wife will hate me more now … 
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That definitely makes the Global XRS’s Primus 2000 suite look dated.
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Well, even though it is a bit more modern than the Primus 2000 (we use Primus 1000 in the Ultra) - the PC24 suite is still probably five or six years behind something like the Garmin 5000. This Honeywell stuff is nice, but does use a different architecture than the Garmin stuff I’ve been growing used to over the last five years (Garmin 430, 750 and G1000)…
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We did the Garmin G5000 upgrade on our 560XL right after the STC came out, about two years ago. We absolutely LOVE it. The enhanced SA it gives us is amazing, and the Garmin autopilot is incredible. If you’d told me how good it would be, I’d have called you a liar. Coming from a background of flying Citations with ProLine 21, GTN750s, and Primus, it’s a huge leap. The best part is the boxes themselves weigh nothing; we lost 380 lbs off of our empty weight!
We went from this:
To this:
(Not my photos, stolen of the interwebs, but identical panels)
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Ha…I have a more modern Primus stove…I forgot that was what it is called. I have an MSR and JetBoil too. Many, many toys in my closets…
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Nice panel upgrade for sure! We pulled about 190 pounds of cabling out of our B200 when we switched from the Collins EFIS 84 to the G1000. Impressive weight savings and overall ease of maintaining…
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Recommended? I’ve been eyeing them up for years
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Oh very much so…well…with the caveat that they are much better at heating water and soups than for cooking over because they burn pretty hot on a small ring. I have a JetBoil specific pan that has a heat exchanger on the bottom of it that works OK…but not as well as a larger burner with a lower flame. The JetBoil will heat up two cups of water in about two minutes though…great for hot cocoa, tea, or putting hot water on dehydrated food. It is our “high mountains” stove when weight is a premium…
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Two…cup holders…! 
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One is for the cup belonging to the girl on the pilot’s lap.
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One for the chaser…
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Replaced my Trangia with one for the last four years of my army service.
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I want one to stick in the back of the pickup for emergency soup and coffee
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I have a Trangia too. The nice thing about that one (if it is the same type anyway)…was that it is easier to find alcohol in some cases than the iso-butane canisters that the JetBoil runs on. I think I even have a mini wood-stove that uses bits of sticks somewhere in my collection of camp stoves. I also have an old Coleman APEX 2 which is a nice dual fuel stove that can burn pretty much anything…it uses an external fuel bottle that you pump to pressurize…has always worked well. And for car camping I have an old reliable Coleman two-burner camp stove that I have adapted to run from a standard size grill type propane tank.
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Well… 
Can I make a confession?
Ours actually doesn’t have two cup holders, unfortunately. Most of them do, including every other Citation I’ve ever flown (that I can recall, anyway).
Our particular aircraft doesn’t, because that spot was previously occupied by the Honeywell electronic checklist controller, a little hat switch that allowed you to check items off the checklist without being required to make the physical effort of raising your hand, because that might be too much work (opulence, i haz it)
Now that controller has been removed, but putting the second cup holder in would have cost an additional $3 each (or maybe a little more, it is an airplane) and so the company declined. (When they were removed I tried to steal both of them for use in my sim pit project, but was caught red-handed and unsuccessful.)
So we’re actually still stuck with only one cup holder like all the rest of the plebs. What the heck are we supposed to do with the can after you pour your coke over ice??
What do you call a basement full of pilots? A whine cellar!Because I quickly (and shamelessly) stole both of those images off the interweb, I failed to notice that small detail.
I also didn’t notice that one of them was an XLS, and the other a straight XL!
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What’s the first sign of pilot incapacitation?
The pilot stops complaining.
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Speaking of cup holders, and venturing yet further off topic:
Summary
When I got checked out in King Airs I was working for a company that operated a mixed fleet of Jets/Turboprops, mostly Citations and King Airs on 91/135. I had been flying Citations for several years (~3 years right seat and then 3 years left seat, some single pilot in the CE525’s) but the only exposure I had in turboprops was right seat warmer in an MU-2 with a charter outfit when I was very wet behind the ears.
The company had hired me to fly their 525’s (CJ, CJ1+, a CJ2+ and a pair of CJ3’s), and I flew single pilot 91 and crew of two 135 ops for them for about year when they decided they wanted to get me dual qualified on their King Air 200’s as well. They had about 1/2 of their jet pilots flying the KA’s as well for schedule flexibility, and I jumped at the chance even though I was nervous about flying something with props again after getting used to jets.
With the start date of school approaching, the Citation I was flying had a mechanical at home base and one of our King Airs swooped in to save the day and rescue the trip. My day was already shot, so I asked the pilot if I could ride along and watch, to get an idea of how they operated and some cockpit familiarity before I started training. He was kind enough to acquiesce, since I offered to run the radios and he might enjoy the company on the long day trip.
As the maintenance folks pushed my sick bird back into the hangar to figure out which black box of wizardry lost its magic smoke, I grabbed my obligatory coffee cup and flight bag and hopped into the cockpit as the PIC shut the door.
As soon as I sat down in the right seat, marveling at all the intimidating gizmos and switches -at least twice as many as I was used to working with in a CJ cockpit- I looked for a cup holder to set my drink. No dice.
This specific bird was an early 80’s BE20, with no cup holders in the cockpit at all (as I later found out was the same for all but one of our fleet). Probably intentional, because as I was about to learn, these things fly down in the bumps at FL200-FL250, and no self respecting King Air driver would risk his uniform for a free cup of FBO coffee.
By now the PIC was in his seat and unsuccessfully stifling a chuckle at my predicament. He was an old Alaskan Bush pilot (and an Army paratrooper before that) that had semi-retired to the warmer climate of the midwest, and had more time in King Airs than I had total.
“I guess you’ll have to drink it fast!” -He helpfully suggested. I stuffed the piping hot cup delicately between my legs while I reached behind me, expecting to find an old David Clark headset hanging somewhere on the cockpit bulkhead. No dice.
“Where’s the headset?” -I naively inquired, sure it must be somewhere.
“You didn’t bring yours?” -He replied with apparent surprise, shaking his head and offering an expression of genuine sympathy in knowing what was about to happen to me.
“No, you guys don’t keep two pairs in the cockpit?”
“We don’t keep any in the cockpit. Everybody brings their own.” -He replied, plugging in his Bose.
“Oh. I don’t even own a headset anymore, everything I fly has a pair of Telexes up front, I didn’t know to grab one.”
“Even if you had, they wouldn’t do you any good in this thing!” -He said, casually rolling a pair of foam earplugs between his fingers, which he inserted into his ears before putting on the headset.
“Oh.” -I said self-consciously, accepting my fate and realizing that since I couldn’t even run the radios, I would be completely dead weight in addition to being a distraction. I was nothing but a tourist, and felt about 2’ tall.
I did learn a lot on that long leg to the east coast. He was kind enough to shout bits of King Air wisdom and specific advice about the more cantankerous components of this specific tail # to me in between busy periods and radio calls.
“This autopilot doesn’t capture altitude, see that! You have to manually level and re-engage after it captures!”
“Don’t try to use Vertical Speed, it chases too much.”
“If it has a Sperry M4D (or whatever gibberish, it was pretty hard to hear him over the whine), basically use it as a wing leveler. If it has the SPZ-200 like this they’re okay, but on the older ones, watch out!”
-Which was interesting considering I watched him hand fly it to altitude and then engage the AP with fear and trembling.
“The prop sync doesn’t work at all, you have to keep them synced. I think the only one we have that has good prop sync is BB, the rest are crap.”
“Don’t trust the flight director on the ILS, it’s no good. You just gotta watch the needles and hand fly it.”
-All of which, combined with the throbbing headache from being stuck between two PT6A-52’s driving big props for hours made me very excited about getting to fly them.
When we got to the destination, the FBO had a noise-cancelling David Clark headset under the class counter for something like $400, which was the best deal I’d ever seen.
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