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Old 4th Nov 2016, 22:26
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trinnydriver
 
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I've flown a TB20 for over 15 years now and would just add that when I was looking for a plane in its class I kept coming back to the TB20. The Rockwell Commander series are beautiful looking planes and I wanted them to come out as the one to get just for the looks but the TB20 came out on top in my spreadsheet (which has since gone due to hard disk failure).

I have flown mine several times to Firs Farm (lovely 600 metres grass farm strip near Newbury) and I think every time I go there it has a cross wind. One of my fellow owners was over 6' tall but had no major issues flying it. The plane will glide at over 9:1 clean which is better than the DA40 configuration in this https://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=102145 incident. I fly mine to Switzerland regularly and normally use half tanks for that journey. It is a solid plane and for me the next step up would be to get access to FIKI and perhaps pressurisation.
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