Re: Next club purchase...

Thanks to everyone for replying.  Some really good points here.  I kind of 
smile at the 152 suggestion...  We have days here in the summer that a 152

can't get off the ground unless it's really light on fuel and the 
passgengers are built like twiggy!


"xyzzy" <xyzzy.dude@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:cca4d271-aeb0-428b-ac3d-7fe6f6678da4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Aug 22, 10:36 pm, "Robert Barker" <cowboy_bo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Our club currently flies a 172R and 172SP as trainers and a Diamond DA40

> as
> our 3rd plane. We've put tons of students thru our 172s and are finally
> getting some good usage on our Diamond. We've started "long distance"
> planning on our next planes. We'd like to get a good low wing trainer
like
> an Archer and we'd like to get a high performance plane to get complex
> ratings. For the complex plane, we're thinking we like something that
can
> do 150kts or better that we can do a nice panel upgrade in - say a G540
> stack and some other upgrades but still something that the insurance
> wouldn't kill us... As we're near the mountains, turbo would be nice but
> would incur some other problems with training, etc. That said, we were
> leaning towards a Turbo Arrow III... Any suggestions?

Sounds like you need my club's fleet.

4 152 (for primary training)
2 172 SP
2 Warrior
2 Mooney M20J

The Mooney works pretty well in the club environment, no turbo,
simple, low maint landing gear.  Just emphasize speed control on
landings during checkouts.  It does 150 kts and has all you need for
the complex training.