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What was the most demanding airplane you have flown?
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 7:44 pm
by Chuck Ellsworth
For me it was the Turbo Goose.
Re: What was the most demanding airplane you have flown?
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 8:02 pm
by Slick Goodlin
I’ve flown a couple antiques that were extremely unforgiving on hot days. The kind of stuff where a knot or two under climb speed has you mushing along with too much drag to climb and a knot or two over is just level flight. Airplanes with climb rates measured in dozens of feet per minute. Not a high workload by any stretch but still requiring the pilot’s undivided attention.
Re: What was the most demanding airplane you have flown?
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 8:12 pm
by Nark1
And by airplane, you mean helicopter!?!
My thought is the one requiring the most attention to “itâ€.
That would be the Bell 206 Jetranger. On a hot Alabama humid summer day, you wouldn’t be able to hover much over 5’. In the wind, you wouldn’t have “full control†when you turned abeam the wind. (Loss of Tailrotor Effectiveness)
Actual bonafide airplane? I’d say right now it’s the Airbus. I have to pay attention to my stupid self and the new FO who is still learning it.
Re: What was the most demanding airplane you have flown?
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 8:25 pm
by Chuck Ellsworth
[quote]And by airplane, you mean helicopter!?! [/quote]
No I meant those things with fixed wings.
A helicopter is an " aircraft " which is a real flying machine. ;)
Re: What was the most demanding airplane you have flown?
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 10:51 pm
by Eric Janson
That would have to be the DC-3 - a real handful for a low time Pilot like I was at the time.
Re: What was the most demanding airplane you have flown?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:31 am
by mcrit
Aeronca Chief. Short distance between C of G and tail made it twitchy.
Re: What was the most demanding airplane you have flown?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 3:53 am
by Connor
Chuck did you fly the turbo goose BCI ?
Re: What was the most demanding airplane you have flown?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 2:06 pm
by Chuck Ellsworth
[quote]Chuck did you fly the turbo goose BCI ?[/quote]
Yes. :)
When I was flying for Air West Airlines.
Re: What was the most demanding airplane you have flown?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 3:59 pm
by cgzro
While I have not flown nearly as many types as many folks here, last year I started flying a Fox Moth .. wow .. not an easy plane to fly. Its a Tiger Moth but with a 3 person cabin stuck on the front but still has the Tiger Moth undersized fin, oversized rudder horn and horrible lateral stability. Throw in pretty much zero forward visibility due to the cabin, very tricky brakes that lock if you go too far one way or the other and you have quite a handful on the ground and in the air. It is pretty though and the wings fold making it quite an interesting bird that gets lots of attention. This one used to be owned by the King of England.
Re: What was the most demanding airplane you have flown?
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 5:58 pm
by Slick Goodlin
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While I have not flown nearly as many types as many folks here, last year I started flying a Fox Moth .. wow .. not an easy plane to fly.
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I’d love to try out a Fox Moth and see what they’re all about. So far I have a bunch of Tiger Moth time and a little Gipsy Moth time, and just a bit of Thruxton Jackaroo time (it’s a four place Tiger Moth) which just makes me want to collect them all.