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Old 25th Jan 2016, 00:13
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Pilot DAR
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I had to pick up a Cessna 207, to fly it into my own 2100 foot grass runway, for work here at home. After a two circuit checkout, I was declared checked out. I started home with the plane, but was not at ease with a short(er) landing in an unfamiliar plane at home. So along the route home, I did ten circuits at a 2500 paved runway I knew well. After ten circuits in the 207, my left arm was honestly tired - it has higher pitch control forces. That aircraft does what it was designed to do, but would hardly be an encouraging abinitio trainer!
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