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"Peter Dohm" wrote:

I'm not sure what the aerodynamic pros can cons are, but having flown
well over 100 hours in Pipers and much more in Cessnas, I haven't seen a
huge difference. The biggest difference I've seen in the Arrow I fly
now as that almost as soon as it touches down you lose a fair bit of
elevator authority and it tends to drop the nosewheel a little more
harshly than I prefer. None of the Cessnas I've flow had the tendency.
The nose would gradually drop with airspeed during the roll-out.

I suspect, but don't really know, that the placement of the main
undercarriage is a greater factor in the effect than the stabilator. I
vaguely recall that Piper took advantage of the greater control authority
possible with the stabilator to install a slightly smaller horizontal tail
surface on one or more models--although I thought that it was the Archer.

fyi - Later cherokees (including the Archer) have a large stabilator than the
earlier cherokees.

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