As a long-term Cessna jockey (150/152s mainly) but with a bit of Katana and several hours in the Beagle Pup (lovely aircraft, but there's another thread) I recently bought a share in a PA28-236 Dakota. I love it, but I'm really struggling with the arrivals.
Sure, keep on a bit of power (6 cylinders and wobbly prop up front and 64 gals in the wings) and the arrival is smoother, but uses a lot of runway in the float - which is fine so long as there's lots of runway for the float
. Still working on the short field greaser, but have recently demonstrated to the assembled viewers a number of impressive kangaroo arrivals.
Back to Ex 12/13, I think.
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