Thanks for the story - from a CFI with a ton of hours in PA-28s and C-172s. No issue with the either aircraft, but I do run into many a would be renter with low wing experience who has a learning curve landing a C172 - porpoising during landings.
I have about 1700 hours in these, teaching at FlightSafety in Vero Beach. These always felt much tighter than the Cessna 172, in which I did my training. If I wanted to buy an airplane [god forbid~!], It would be an early '70's Piper Cherokee PA-28-150 with the "Hershey Bar" wing, since these are simple and cheap and they fly very nicely. I'd pay for the 160 or 180 hp STC, along with Mogas to keep the costs down, but you still have to put in escrow $100 per hour for these airplanes. Back in 1989, I rented a '67 Cherokee Cruiser out of Sebastian, Florida for $26 per hour wet.....
I did my IFR trainig at FSI back in 2003. My flight instructor was Bill Griffiths. I don't know if he is till there. But I guess not, after such a long time. If yes, say hello from that crazy German guy ;)
@@KaiNeknete2012 Hi, I was an instructor and Assistant Chief Instructor at FSI from '89 to '93. I don't remember a Bill Griffiths at the time. There were a LOT of instructors who came and went, the place literally had a revolving front door. Sadly, FSI Vero Beach is no more; Al Ueltschi, the founder of FlightSafety died in 2012, and then the school started having trouble retaining instructors due to the airlines demanding pilots. COVID came and the school lost its accreditation; FlightSafety International sold it to a British group and now it is known as Skyborne Academy.
Love our PA28 Cherokee 140. Was one of the oldest in the UK th-cam.com/video/ZvlxJ1oLCb4/w-d-xo.html We now have another one and it flies so effortlessly and quietly too. It is a joy to fly and at the 'cheaper' end of four seat flying! They may be old but wonderful to fly. BTW at 1:40 is it just me or is the prop spinning the wrong way!
Thanks for the story - from a CFI with a ton of hours in PA-28s and C-172s.
No issue with the either aircraft, but I do run into many a would be renter with low wing experience who has a learning curve landing a C172 - porpoising during landings.
Yep. I mostly fly the piper, but I do fly the cessnas. You get used to it, but the renters? Oh yeah.
3:00 say right side and show left side on the lefthand animation
Yes, the drawing is wrong - the door is on the 'P2' side, over the right wing as it were.
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I have about 1700 hours in these, teaching at FlightSafety in Vero Beach. These always felt much tighter than the Cessna 172, in which I did my training.
If I wanted to buy an airplane [god forbid~!], It would be an early '70's Piper Cherokee PA-28-150 with the "Hershey Bar" wing, since these are simple and cheap and they fly very nicely. I'd pay for the 160 or 180 hp STC, along with Mogas to keep the costs down, but you still have to put in escrow $100 per hour for these airplanes.
Back in 1989, I rented a '67 Cherokee Cruiser out of Sebastian, Florida for $26 per hour wet.....
I miss the '69 Cherokee I used to fly. Such a delight!
I did my IFR trainig at FSI back in 2003. My flight instructor was Bill Griffiths. I don't know if he is till there. But I guess not, after such a long time. If yes, say hello from that crazy German guy ;)
@@KaiNeknete2012 Hi, I was an instructor and Assistant Chief Instructor at FSI from '89 to '93. I don't remember a Bill Griffiths at the time. There were a LOT of instructors who came and went, the place literally had a revolving front door. Sadly, FSI Vero Beach is no more; Al Ueltschi, the founder of FlightSafety died in 2012, and then the school started having trouble retaining instructors due to the airlines demanding pilots. COVID came and the school lost its accreditation; FlightSafety International sold it to a British group and now it is known as Skyborne Academy.
Not a word of the wingspar issues and the subsequent AD?
Love our PA28 Cherokee 140. Was one of the oldest in the UK th-cam.com/video/ZvlxJ1oLCb4/w-d-xo.html We now have another one and it flies so effortlessly and quietly too. It is a joy to fly and at the 'cheaper' end of four seat flying! They may be old but wonderful to fly. BTW at 1:40 is it just me or is the prop spinning the wrong way!
Good but not a patch on the Comanche.
I flew nearly all my 60-odd hours on this marvellous a/c. Then I had children ans a business to run.