I spent amost a week in sunny Fla. at PC-12 ground school which
included a goodly number of hours in the simulator which, as the
article in AOPA mentions is non-motion. The school is an extensive one
and is designed for low time pilots with little or no exprience in high
performance turbo props. My sim instructor was a glider pilot so we
spent most of the time shooting insturment approaches with the engine
shut down and the prop feathered. If you start the approach with a
little extra energy and stay about a dot and one half high on the glide
slope and then hold on the landing gear until DH, an engine out
approach is no problem. Non-precision approaches are a bit harder.
Because the sim is non-motion, we did loops and rolls with it.
I've got about 500 hours in the PC-12; it will run with a KingAir 200
and land almost as short as a Cessna Caravan. If the part 135 company
here in NM had not gone out of business, I would still be flying one.

Billy Hill, Zulu