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A36 baggage?
Where do you put the luggage in an A36? (do you have to take out the 3rd row
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A36 baggage?
There is a space behind the 3rd row that can contain baggage.
THe usual caveat about Bonanza's and their empty fuel/end of trip CG issues applies. Dave John Doe wrote: Where do you put the luggage in an A36? (do you have to take out the 3rd row of seats?) |
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A36 baggage?
"Dave S" wrote in message k.net... There is a space behind the 3rd row that can contain baggage. THe usual caveat about Bonanza's and their empty fuel/end of trip CG issues applies. Can you explain further? |
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On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:08:43 -0400, "John Doe"
wrote: "Dave S" wrote in message nk.net... There is a space behind the 3rd row that can contain baggage. THe usual caveat about Bonanza's and their empty fuel/end of trip CG issues applies. Can you explain further? Fuel is typically forward of the spar/c.g., bodies and "stuff" typically aft of the spar/c.g. In-flight the fuel gets turned into various combustion by-products and the c.g. shifts aft. AFAIK the A36 has the 2 front seats located further forward than any of the other Bananer's, but the passenger/baggage compartment extends further aft. TC |
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A36 baggage?
Newps wrote:
In an A36 if you can takeoff within CG you will land within CG. I've got a flight planner which came loaded with the data for an A36 with club seating, N90002. The CoG shifts aft 4" from full to empty tanks. It's very easy to load that plane in such a way that you take off within the envelope and attempt to land outside the envelope without anyone changing seats. George Patterson Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him. |
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A36 baggage?
That hard part is loading it. I flew a Debonair before I bought my
Mooney. I still don't understand why Beech continues having people load baggage from that little door on the side. In the Mooney, you load it like a car's truck, from the top. In the Beech, I had to load the first bag, then lift it up and load the next under it, etc. The other option was to load the bags over the back seat, skipping the door. There is a reason Chevy puts a trunk on cars rather than have a little door on the side to load your car. I guess for those that only carry 1 or 2 bags the Beech way may work but for those of us that load to the ceiling, the Mooney way is clearly the best. I"m also 6'4", I've always thought that Beech designed for shorter pilots, while Mooney designed for taller pilots, perhaps that is a factor too. -Robert |
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A36 baggage?
You're 6'4" and you fly a Mooney? Wow. Good on ya. Probably don't have
much leg room for passengers in the back. Do you find the Mooney to be a tight fit? "Robert M. Gary" wrote in message oups.com... That hard part is loading it. I flew a Debonair before I bought my Mooney. I still don't understand why Beech continues having people load baggage from that little door on the side. In the Mooney, you load it like a car's truck, from the top. In the Beech, I had to load the first bag, then lift it up and load the next under it, etc. The other option was to load the bags over the back seat, skipping the door. There is a reason Chevy puts a trunk on cars rather than have a little door on the side to load your car. I guess for those that only carry 1 or 2 bags the Beech way may work but for those of us that load to the ceiling, the Mooney way is clearly the best. I"m also 6'4", I've always thought that Beech designed for shorter pilots, while Mooney designed for taller pilots, perhaps that is a factor too. -Robert |
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You're 6'4" and you fly a Mooney? Wow
It would be hard to fly a Mooney if you aren't 6 foot. At 6'4" I still have to move the seat up several notches. The Mooney is like a sports car, you sit with your feet almost straight out in front of you. The firewall actually has feet areas cut out for all that leg room. My wife could never fly the Mooney. She's 5"5" and not only can she not reach the rudders but she also can't see over the glareshield. In the Bonanza you sit up like in a truck. My knees always seemed to be hitting the bottom of the panel, Getting in and out is easier in the Bonanza but sitting up front, the Mooney is clearly more roomy. I have the F Mooney (about 10" longer than the older models). My boys are pre-teen and fit just fine. I've ridden in the back seat by myself and was ok. However, two full size guys in the back seat is very tight. In the Bonanza you have a bit larger cabin but it costs 2-3 gal/hr more to push that larger cabin through the air at the same 150 knots. -Robert |
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Robert M. Gary wrote: In the Bonanza you sit up like in a truck. My knees always seemed to be hitting the bottom of the panel, Getting in and out is easier in the Bonanza but sitting up front, the Mooney is clearly more roomy. My experience has been the opposite. I have an S35 and a friend has an M20C, about a 62 or 63 model. In the Mooney your feet are straight out in front and there's hardly any wiggle room. The Bonanza you sit in like in your kitchen chair. Legs getting tired during the flight? In the Mooney too bad, there's no place to move them to. In the Bo I can put my legs on the copilot side if I want. Time to get out? In the Mooney you have to slide the seat back to extract yourself. In my Bo the seat never moves unless I let somebody else fly from the left seat. When you slide the seat back in a Mooney it rests right up against the front of the back seat, leaving exactly zero leg room for a passenger in the back seat. I'm 6'2" and have the seat in my Bo 2 or 3 notches from full back. If I put the seat full back the rear seat passengers still have more legroom than your average compact car, probably about 18" and that's with the rear seats slid all the way forward. Need more? Then slide the back seats farther back, there's probably about 12" of travel there, just like the front seats. The Mooney? Oh yeah that's right, the back seat is fixed and it's a one piece seat. The Bo has individual rear seats, each with it's own armrest on both sides of the seat. At least the Mooney windows are like pillbox slits compared to the Bo...The Mooney is good at what it was designed for, to go fast on little power. It is not designed for off pavement operations. Not nearly enough prop clearance and gear doors that are way too close to the ground. To get 150 knots TAS I need to run 11.5 GPH thru my BO, that's 21.5" and 2100 at the best altitude of 6000, that's 55% power so it's pretty quiet in there at that low a setting. I'm not sure what my friends Mooney needs for that. I think I remember her saying that 145-150 knots was about all you'd get out of 180 HP. |
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