Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Bertie
Had a buddy once who bought a 150 Apache. He had trouble fining an
FAA
type to go flying with him. They liked it with both fans running,
but
giving a flight test in it was another matter :-))




What? You're kidding? They were the perfect trainer and probably the
safest thing to do flight tests in. It was the only light twin ever
certified for spins (later revoked). The thing about them was that
you
had to do everything right or they wouldn't go up, even light, but
more
importantly, as a trainerm they were less likely to kill you than any
other light twin if the student got it horribly wrong.

I've not time in the 150 myself. It's a fact that the FAA wasn't all
that happy about flying with him in it; a lot of fuss about issues
below
VMC un certain conditions. Apparently a couple of the fuzz folks had
problems giving flight tests in it...but you know the FAA :-))


Well, the guy I was with seemed to prefer it, but that was a while back,
of course. I don't see the current crop being all that much better,
really, and the apache was so docile.....
Never flew a 235 but that should have been streets better. Flew an Aztec
a few tims, but not enought to get a handle on it. The 310 would have
ahd a much narrower comfort envelope than the apache, for instance, even
though it went up better on one at training weights. Likewise the Baron
and just about anything else I can think of.
I was an observer on a DC-3 training flight where it departed during a
VMC demo. I was standing in between them and hungover as bedamned. Ugh,
getting nauseous just thinking about it.


#Bertie