Aircraft you love and hate to fly ...
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Slasher, man of my own heart re your likes...although I always had dramas with the heal brakes on the cub particularly with wet/muddy boots.
I hate C172's like I hate rap music and car thieves.
I would donate a kidney for a gig in a Porter, turbo Beaver, Otter or amphib Caravan.
Amen
I hate C172's like I hate rap music and car thieves.
I would donate a kidney for a gig in a Porter, turbo Beaver, Otter or amphib Caravan.
Amen
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Tee Emm - is that 50 guineas or 50 Guinesses? 
Boof - VERY uncomfortable pilot seat, eng probs in very heavy
rain esp starting. N22 is probably ok in the desert but not in
heavy tropical monsoon wx. I just hated the damn thing. But
that was many many moons ago and maybe since then there's
been improvements.
Perhaps hate is too strong a word re 320 - "Really Don't Like
All That Much" would be more accurate. Manuals are a dog's
dinner, unnecessarily complicated abnormals (although the
Frogs do try to improve the QRH from time to time to make it
less labor-intensive), and every computer-reliant nut on this
thing seems to have this paranoid fear of Direct Law, as if the
total loss of protections will cause one's ultimate doom. And
am 5,000 hours on type and current to answer your last.
Castrol - thumbs up to the Porter. The Maule is the closest
I've ever come to one. I actually own a Cub and its best to
keep a clean and dry set of boots in the aeroplane for them
wet and muddy days.
On warm days I often open the left plastic side window and
rest my elbow on the shelf. Then afterwards I'll close it, and
shortly after forget that I did so and break the damn thing
by shoving my bloody elbow through it!
Anyway try doing this when you next jump into one Cas!
Boof - VERY uncomfortable pilot seat, eng probs in very heavy
rain esp starting. N22 is probably ok in the desert but not in
heavy tropical monsoon wx. I just hated the damn thing. But
that was many many moons ago and maybe since then there's
been improvements.
Perhaps hate is too strong a word re 320 - "Really Don't Like
All That Much" would be more accurate. Manuals are a dog's
dinner, unnecessarily complicated abnormals (although the
Frogs do try to improve the QRH from time to time to make it
less labor-intensive), and every computer-reliant nut on this
thing seems to have this paranoid fear of Direct Law, as if the
total loss of protections will cause one's ultimate doom. And
am 5,000 hours on type and current to answer your last.
Castrol - thumbs up to the Porter. The Maule is the closest
I've ever come to one. I actually own a Cub and its best to
keep a clean and dry set of boots in the aeroplane for them
wet and muddy days.
On warm days I often open the left plastic side window and
rest my elbow on the shelf. Then afterwards I'll close it, and
shortly after forget that I did so and break the damn thing
by shoving my bloody elbow through it!
Anyway try doing this when you next jump into one Cas!
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Slasher which nomad seat did you find bad? the cushion ones or the military ones? I find the Military style ones to be perfect over the summer months, a little cold at night but it defiantly beats a Metro's seat.
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Neither - more like a thin nylon hessian bag nailed to a seat frame.
Pinky red in color if I recall correctly. Anything over one hour flying
and my lower back became sore as hell, and I was already suffering
from Shagger's Back in those days!
Pinky red in color if I recall correctly. Anything over one hour flying
and my lower back became sore as hell, and I was already suffering
from Shagger's Back in those days!
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Slasher yes the seat was not too good, but I liked it, in warm conditions. When it was cold it let too much cold air through. I can see how a big person might be uncomfortable with the seat rails digging into the backside and lower back but it suited me.
To each his own.
To each his own.
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We took a 1980's Piper Saratoga ( 300 hp ) from Alice Springs up to the Kimberly and loved every minute of it - my favourite GA aircraft for now - the rear seats are a virtual lounge room - the wife or whoever can stretch out feet up and have a snooze. Fully fueled will still take 340- 350 kg or so. Planning TAS over 155 Knots which is handy , and a predictable and easy aircraft to fly with no quirks, and very surprising good on short dirt strips if you nail the approach speed.
I don't hate any aicraft and love them all really - I find the C 182 a bit a a clutz in the flare - agricultural, and nose heavy, but then it has other virtues. Wasnt impressed by the Beech Duchess when i did my twin rating - hardly there, when the S hits the F, but I suppose thats a virtue in a training aircraft....
I'd love to get hold of a late model Mooney.
I don't hate any aicraft and love them all really - I find the C 182 a bit a a clutz in the flare - agricultural, and nose heavy, but then it has other virtues. Wasnt impressed by the Beech Duchess when i did my twin rating - hardly there, when the S hits the F, but I suppose thats a virtue in a training aircraft....
I'd love to get hold of a late model Mooney.
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I both love and hate the C-206, I love it for the weight it caries and the way it caries it and the field performance at max tow/lw just perfect. I only hate it after thousands of hours due to the tedium of embarking on another 5 hour sortie.
Those I have loved in the past
Long Eze, cramped but fast for the horsepower and fuel burn awesome visibility and flying characteristics.
[
I]Slepcev Storch[/I], go for a ride with Nestor and you will understand
PA28's and c152's aviations answer to the postie bike.
150 horse Victa hotted up postie bike, most comfortable instructors seat in the business.
Hate with a passion
Drifter - cold, windy, slow and pointless
Those I have loved in the past
Long Eze, cramped but fast for the horsepower and fuel burn awesome visibility and flying characteristics.
[
I]Slepcev Storch[/I], go for a ride with Nestor and you will understand
PA28's and c152's aviations answer to the postie bike.
150 horse Victa hotted up postie bike, most comfortable instructors seat in the business.
Hate with a passion
Drifter - cold, windy, slow and pointless
Love:
Baron 58
C208
BE-23 I know, probably in a class of one here, but I just do...
Cub - Piper and Savage versions
C150/2 how could you not love your first, she is what she is....
Tecnam P92 & P96 - modern day C150 but handle better and they have a stick!
and Drifter - unrivalled view out and about as well mannered a taildragger as you'll ever meet. Pure fun
Merely like:
PA-28 - flies nicer than the Cessna equivalent but that single door on the wrong side p1$$x$ me off every time I get near it.
Early Jabiru - could probably get used to the cock-eyed throttle, but did not like the teleflex cable operated ailerons.
Baron 58
C208
BE-23 I know, probably in a class of one here, but I just do...
Cub - Piper and Savage versions
C150/2 how could you not love your first, she is what she is....
Tecnam P92 & P96 - modern day C150 but handle better and they have a stick!
and Drifter - unrivalled view out and about as well mannered a taildragger as you'll ever meet. Pure fun
Merely like:
PA-28 - flies nicer than the Cessna equivalent but that single door on the wrong side p1$$x$ me off every time I get near it.
Early Jabiru - could probably get used to the cock-eyed throttle, but did not like the teleflex cable operated ailerons.
