On Apr 13, 1:22*pm, Mike Ash wrote:

However, the punch line is that the passenger was *also* a pilot, albeit
lacking the proper endorsements for a King Air, so the question of a
layman successfully handling things remains unknown.

Oh ****, just wait for you-know-who to chime in on this one... "But if
he had KA sim time..."

But I can only assume that the directions being given assumed that the
pilot-passenger would know where to find things, since there would be no
guarantee that the panel would be identical.

Yes the panels of King Airs and 172s are VERY different. And that's
the truth that our friend in France will never accept.