Originally Posted by
westhawk
I did a quick search on that very popular search engine using the search term "PA28-181 wheel pants" and found a multitude of images, after-market products and claims of up to 10 knots greater speed! In my experience though, these additional speed claims tend to be a little bit "optimistic" shall we say? We run a whole fleet of Archers with no wheel pants installed. Most of them will top out at 120-125 KTAS. If they had factory wheel pants, I believe we might get as much as 128!
Hi, thank you for your reply! I have tried searching online however the images that are returned are unfortunately not suitable to allow me to reproduce a close to life 3 dimensional model. The speeds are extremely useful! As they represent the actual operating speeds of the aircraft experienced by the user (Some manufacturers may "inflate" their values slightly.). Thank you very much this information has been extremely useful.
- George