Flight Modeling vs. Flight Handling.

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Originally Posted by louisv

For what it's worth, a long time ago I was taking flying lessons on Piper Cherokees. There were half a dozen of those and I flew all of them.

While the big numbers are very certainly similar, the feel was different. They each had their own personalities: sitting higher or lower, tightness in the controls, etc...

So there is indeed a lot of subjective variables here...

I flew a few different Pipers that were in the 140 stable during training time. I have to say that I did not notice a difference between them. I'm sure though that they existed, but I never noticed any...too young and nervous I guess