Plane "sharing" experience?

In article ,
" wrote:

Four people in a Cherokee 140? Are you serious?

a older 140 can have the useful load to carry four people,
especially when you start with the fuel at the tabs. I've even
seen older 140s that have more useful load than a warrior.
Steve Foley had (has?) one with 872lb useful load.

And how many JATO bottles are used during this takeoff?

Apparently you haven't flown a 140.

My 140 (and Steve's) require the same take-off roll as a warrior II.

--
Bob Noel
(goodness, please trim replies!!!)

Apparently you haven't flown a 140.

My 140 (and Steve's) require the same take-off roll as a warrior II.

Yep, a 140 that is light on fuel will easily haul four adults.

It helps if they are double-amputees in the back seat, but it'll do
the job in a pinch.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:03:29 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

Four people in a Cherokee 140? Are you serious?

Is this a flight school for ants?

My aunts are pretty light.... :-)

Ron Wanttaja

On Dec 16, 2:03 pm, " wrote:
On Dec 16, 2:42 pm, Jay Honeck wrote:



Suggestions as to appropriate "training" aircraft (beyond the Cessna 150 /
172) would also be appreciated.

A Cherokee 140 is an excellent and inexpensive trainer that can (in a
pinch) carry four people. It also has the advantage of having the
wing on the proper side of the fuselage...

;-)

Additionally, would it be wise to contract a single CFI to do our
instruction? At approximately 50 hours per pupil, they could log a lot of
time. Maybe we could get a small discount?

Sounds like a good idea -- if you can keep everyone in line and on
schedule.

If you can keep a bunch of student pilots focused and organized,
you've got two great opportunities to save money. In my experience,
however, organizing pilots is a lot like herding cats, so you'll have
your work cut out for you...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Four people in a Cherokee 140? Are you serious?

Is this a flight school for ants?

A Cherokee 140 will take off at full gross (2150 lbs) and clear a 50'
obstacle in 1800' of paved runway. I've had mine loaded with four
people at full gross weight and it flies just perfectly fine.

Just make sure they aren't all 250+lb lardasses.

My Cherokee 140 has a useful load of 810 pounds.
And BTW, it may be going up for sale again soon so I might be able to
resume my dream of building an RV-7.
It's a nice one, with new paint and interior, a new PM3000 stereo
intercom system, and a GPS196.

A good pic of it taken at Oshkosh 2007 is located at:
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/100122.html