After seeing the GOODYEAR AIRSHIP floating around Liverpool and the Wirral over the past few week's i thought it would be a good question to see what you guy's are flying these day's? OR what have you flown
as Pic, bear in mind I'm only two months into the brown wallet so just learning.
plus trillions of gliders.
I've also flown lots of stuff as non Pic. With a qualified on type P1 of course.
Lunchmaster I take it the mighty 28 was tongue in cheek, took a couple of friends flying today (like a mill pond, beautiful) and was at max TO weight. It didn't accelerate to take of speed, it proceeded....
C150/152/172/206/207/310 PA18/23/28/31/32/38 BE36/55/58 Robin DR400 Pitts S2 Partenavia P68 DH82 Yak52 Jetstream 31/32 Fokker 27/50/70/100
...and a few gliders (and some motor gliders)
Now fly:
Embraer 190
The nicest aircraft to fly? Super Cub, Fokker 100 and ASW20BL The easiest to fly? Fokker 100 The most fun? DH82 The most horrible? E190
Some very impressive diversity of experience here!
Not much exotica in my logbook, but I'm always looking to add new experiences. Airplanes I have time in so far:
Land planes: Beech B-19 Sport, C-23 Sundowner, C24R Sierra, BE-76 Duchess, Various model 35s Bellanca/Champion 8KCAB Decathlon Cessna 150,152,172,172RG,175,177,177RG,182,182RG,195,205,210,T210,3 10 Citabria 7GCBC and 7ECA Grumman American AA-5A and B Cheetah and Tiger. (and AG-5B) Hawker HS125-400,700,800XP IAI-1124/1124A (Westwind I and II) Learjet 60 Piper PA-12 ,18,24,28-140 thru 200T,30,34
Seaplanes: C-150,172,182 straight floats, C-185 on amphibs PA-18 Super Cub straight floats, PA-23 Apache on straight and amphib floats Lake Buccaneer
The Decathlon is the most pure fun followed closely by the Super Cub float plane in a mountainous environment. The Lear 60 wins hands down in terms of raw performance, but the quirky old Westwind still owns my heart as it was my first jet and is the type I have the most time in.
The biggest dog of the bunch has to be the Seneca I. It gets the job done is the best I can say about it! The turbo models are far superior. If there was ever an airplane I felt totally at ease with, it would have to be the mighty Skyhawk. I would love to own an early '70s model someday.
Somewhere down the road I'd like to add a glider rating too.
