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First Multi Engine Flight

Postby Meinas » Tue Mar 23, 2004 4:06 pm

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :) ;D :o ;D

It was sweet, being the first flight more time was spent on the preflight than actual flying, which everyone in dispatch ragged on me about.

The plane is a PA 44 Seminole, relatively a sucky light twin when compared to other light twins.  But compared to a Cessna 172sp.....wowzers.. it has sooo much power....soo much faster.  We didn't do anything too exciting just went out and did some regular flight maneuvers, climbs, turns, get used to visual references.  The plane felt twichy with ailerons and I had to muscle it on the stabilator.  Electrim was nice....twin garmin 430 were nice, Apollo MX200 was nice....it was sooo sweet , just undescribible.... 8)
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Re: First Multi Engine Flight

Postby ozzy72 » Tue Mar 23, 2004 4:52 pm

You lucky devil you ;) ;D
Sounds like it was great fun :o ;D 8)

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Re: First Multi Engine Flight

Postby IcedFoxtrotter » Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:40 am

Embry finaly got all the seminoles running?

I love zipping around in my old flight school's Partenavia twin. It's speedy, easy to fly, is comfortable on S.E., and lands nice and slow. Dream to fly.......
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Re: First Multi Engine Flight

Postby Meinas » Wed Mar 24, 2004 11:40 am

Embry finaly got all the seminoles running?

I love zipping around in my old flight school's Partenavia twin. It's speedy, easy to fly, is comfortable on S.E., and lands nice and slow. Dream to fly.......



nope, 3 are down now, 2 mentioned in a thread from 2 weeks ago, and one more is in for regular maintenence.

whats a Partenavia?
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Re: First Multi Engine Flight

Postby IcedFoxtrotter » Wed Mar 24, 2004 3:25 pm

whats a Partenavia?

One of these (C model to be exact):
http://airliners.net/search/photo.search?aircraft_genericsearch=Partenavia%20P68&distinct_entry=true
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Re: First Multi Engine Flight

Postby Meinas » Wed Mar 24, 2004 6:31 pm

that looks a little bigger than the seminole how many passengers does it hold?
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Re: First Multi Engine Flight

Postby IcedFoxtrotter » Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:43 am

6 or 7, I cant remember at the moment.
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Re: First Multi Engine Flight

Postby Jared » Sun Mar 28, 2004 10:41 pm

Sounds like a very good thing for you! Glad you finally got to it! :-)

As for me I have only flown a twin so far, the Piper Cheyenne III...up to 11 passengers in the "space-saving" configuration....Only got about 10 minutes which is all of my flight time so far...;-)
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Re: First Multi Engine Flight

Postby Meinas » Sun Mar 28, 2004 11:15 pm

Sounds like a very good thing for you! Glad you finally got to it! :-)

As for me I have only flown a twin so far, the Piper Cheyenne III...up to 11 passengers in the "space-saving" configuration....Only got about 10 minutes which is all of my flight time so far...;-)


10 in multi turboprop good sized GA plane>42 in small seminole :-[
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Re: First Multi Engine Flight

Postby Jared » Wed Mar 31, 2004 10:45 am

Wish that I had that many hours in anything! :-)
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