Originally Posted by
Horatio Leafblower
Captain Dart,
I have only flown an early one and I thought it was pretty awful. Flaps in bad spots, fuel system was a mess, throttle on the door sill that at best caught in your shorts while dismounting and at worst could castrate you.
I believe later iterations have been better.
The throttle position depends on how the controls are set up. If you have a central yoke, the throttles are in the castration position on both sides of the cockpit. Dual yokes gets you a single throttle on the central console. I prefer this setup, mainly 'cos I like my man-bits.
The flaps are a bit "meh", but are easier to operate with the dual yokes....however the aircraft will pitch *down* when you extend the flaps, and pitch *up* when you retract them, which takes a little bit of getting used to.
Not a bad aircraft overall..