Advice on Socata TB10
Joined: Jul 2003
Aviation Qualifications: PPL
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From: Canada (Southeastern Québec)
I own a '79 Beech Sundowner. It has a terrific forward view and flies with a slight nose-down attitude. You almost think you're in a heli. It has delightful controls, and really quick ailerons. In fact a few of them came kitted out for basic aerobatics (mine is one of those).
Nice wide cabin too. Mine is a former trainer so it's very spam-cannish, but it is very solid and has great reliability. Thanks to a prop pitched for climb it manages to overcome gravity far better than my previous PA28-140. It's very stable, good IFR platform.
I bought mine in 2003 with 10,000+ hours on the airframe and 1500 on the engine and have spent surprisingly little to keep it airworthy, certainly less than my previous PA28!
Downsides: it is a ground-lover, fairly quick approach speed (80 knots no flaps, 70 with flaps), rotates at 65 knots, not before, and the clean stall is a fairly high 63 knots.
Nice wide cabin too. Mine is a former trainer so it's very spam-cannish, but it is very solid and has great reliability. Thanks to a prop pitched for climb it manages to overcome gravity far better than my previous PA28-140. It's very stable, good IFR platform.
I bought mine in 2003 with 10,000+ hours on the airframe and 1500 on the engine and have spent surprisingly little to keep it airworthy, certainly less than my previous PA28!
Downsides: it is a ground-lover, fairly quick approach speed (80 knots no flaps, 70 with flaps), rotates at 65 knots, not before, and the clean stall is a fairly high 63 knots.
