The PC-12 does have a 12 to 1 glide ratio. I spent a week in sunny
Fla. during Dec. '04 going thru SIMCOM's PC-12 school. It's designed
for relatively low time pilots with little or no turbo time. My sim
instructor was a glider pilot who had me doing engine off instrument
approaches. You just carry a bit more airspeed, fly the glide slope a
dot and one half high and save the gear until reaching DH and its a
cake walk. Non-precision approaches are more difficult. The sim,
which is non motion can also be looped and rolled.
The Platapus will run with a KingAir 200 and land almost as short as a
Cessna Caravan, and if the Part 135 company I was working for had not
gone T.U. I would still be flying one.

Billy Hill, Zulu