Re: Next club purchase...

heh, I blew past the fact that we're flatlanders and you're mountain
folk.  However, the Mooney is still a good suggestion for a club
plane, and a Warrior is an excellent low-wing trainer (though at your
altitude, like you said you may need to get an archer and treat it
like a warrior for loading purposes)

On Aug 28, 10:56=A0pm, "Robert Barker" <cowboy_bo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for replying. =A0Some really good points here. =A0I
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nd of
> smile at the 152 suggestion... =A0We 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.d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> news:cca4d271-aeb0-428b-ac3d-7fe6f6678da4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On 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
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0
> > 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
l=
ike
> > 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
c=
an
> > 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
bu=
t
> > 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. =A0Just emphasize speed control on
> landings during checkouts. =A0It does 150 kts and has all you need for
> the complex training.