> Poor chap! But in a Cherokee??
Yeah, seriously? That has got to be one of the worst planes for
inverted/negative-g flight ever. First of all, if the guy didn't keep
positive g, the carb will run dry. Secondly, if he didn't have enough
speed and use a proper amount of rudder, that wing will stall out and
he'll spiral right in. Thirdly, he'll scrub off enough speed through
the manouver that he'd have to start out above Vno. Frankly, I'm not
even sure how it could be done in a Cherokee without losing 300 foot
of altitude.
OK, maybe not the worst plane, but needless to say, I'm no Piper Cherokee fan.
We had this old pilot at our airport who had a beater Cherokee. The
guy would do all sorts of stupid stuff with it, including flying
inverted. Old+Bold. However, over 50 years, he crashed a dozen
aircraft and somehow lived through every one of them.
Would somebody explain to me the logic behind having the sole cabin
door on the passenger side? This is one legacy feature of Beechcraft
and Piper that I have never been able to figure out.
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