I am also a fairly new 260 Six owner, and I love this plane. I fly it sort of like a tail dragger (nose high at touchdown) and don't have any problem with good landings.
I nearly always carry a little power through the flare also. I used to live in southeast Alaska and the FAR 135 airtaxi operators fly a lot of Sixes there. The commercial guys there always landed with power too. As I'm sure you have noticed, forward visibility isn't great, (again like a taildragger) but nearly everyone that has much time in one loves the plane.
As has been mentioned, The Cherokee Pilots Assn at:
http://www.piperowner.com/ is a really great resource. A very active forum with quite a few Six drivers. You have to be a member to join "Cherokee chat" but its worth it.
John
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Originally Posted by Steven Barnes
Well my partners & I are officially broke, again. We picked up our 1966
Cherokee Six today. I got my checkout & gave 1 partner the beginning of his.
Compared to our 180, it's huge!
In a couple weeks we upgrade the panel.
One thing that amazes me is the power off sink rate. In the 180, you'd lose
about 500-600 feet in a 210 degree turn back to a runway (learning this
number from practice up at altitude). Today we tried it and the Six lost
1000 feet easy. Heavy thing.
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