my baby
I am a proud owner of the wonderful C209 specimen, and I have a long standing relationship with the ole girl, she has stood by me thru 7 marriages (4 divorces) and 43,000 hours of hobbs time, (only 28,000 of these were in the air but I log via the ardmore system).
I currently use 2 of these aircraft, one for topdressing and the other for hedge-trimming. Like jafa i use the "arm out the window" technique while hedge-trimming, and have also found that this technique helps the glide performance of this machine, increasing it to approximately 1 metre every 790'.
Just a warning to Tiger, when you get your rating remember no more then 1.6 degrees nose up as this aircraft has similar tail strike tendencies to Singapore Airline jets. Good luck to you tho, im sure you will most enjoy flying this OPB (over-performing-beast)
milky