Colin:

The article in AOPA talks about SIMCOM which is the only certified
PC-12 sim school in the US. Their program is designed for relatively
low time pilots transitioning into bigger and faster aircraft. When I
was there I had the good luck to have a sim instructor who was also a
glider pilot, so after getting the basics out of the way, we did most
of our approaches with the engine shut down and the prop feathered.
The glide ratio is about 12 to 1 and if you fly the approach at about
130 kts., stay about a dot and one half high on the glide slope and
hold off on the landing gear until DH, you can make a very nice dead
stick ILS. Non-precision approaches are a bit more difficult. Because
the sim is non motion, we did loops and rolls with it. All this in
sunny fla. in the dead of winter!
The PC-12 is one great aircraft! It runs with a KingAir 200 and will
land almost as short as a Cessna Caravan (which anything but a nice
aircraft.) I've got about 500 hours in one and miss flying it. The
company I was working for, a part 135 operator here in NM went out of
business.
Billy Hill, Zulu