I've never flown a Piper with electric trim, but I find the manual trim
wheel between the seats very convenient. You don't have to lean forward to
work it like the manual trim in a Skyhawk (the only Cessna I've flown), and
it falls easily to hand without looking. The only problem I've had was when
I weighed 60 lb more and I had a similar-sized passenger in the right seat.
Then I found that it was a bit of a squeeze (that might have been
misunderstood) getting to it between our hips :-).

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Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)

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"Roy Smith" wrote in message
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"Paul Sengupta" wrote:

"Roy Smith" wrote in message
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Now I fly mostly Pipers. I really like the manual flaps instead of
Cessna's electric ones, and curse the electric trim Piper uses instead
of Cessna's manual trim system.

Is there not a manual trim wheel then?

Paul

There is, but it's not in a very convenient place (stuffed between the
front seats). The Piper electric trim is very convenient when it works,
the problem is that it so often doesn't work :-(