Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
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



Most all of my professional flying was done in singles. Believe it or
not, I think I might be the only idiot lest alive who tested in a 337
and got one of those stupid centerline thrust ratings :-)) We had one
for charter and I had to get rated in it to use it. I have a lot of
time flying multi-engine airplanes but never was rated for them; just
way too much involved in instructing in high performance singles I
guess.


Now that's an odd logbook allright!


Bertie