"Do you fly from short grass strips or mainly hard runways?"
Mostly Tarmac during the winter, but will use some of the longer grass strips during the summer. The current weather here seems to be a constant round of torrential rain and I have a morbid fear of having to dig an aircraft out of a grass strip (has Popham re-openned yet?).
Unless I'm missing something, we seem to come back to the Cherokee 180/Archer/Arrow choice, whith a Dakota or a 114 being out of budget?