10 Most Forgiving Personal Airplanes 

The panthera can recover on command from a stall spin at max gross weight. I don’t know another aircraft that can do that. Even 10 spins in a row!

There’s a 172N at my school that has an upgraded 180 horsepower engine and it literally wont stall unless you have the power completely at idle and pitch up at 35 degrees, there’s enough torque at idle you will just be in a nice descent all the way up till 30 degrees AOT. Absolutely love it cause its the fastest trainer we have for one of the lowest cost per hour lol

So Cessna 150, 172, and 182. I'm sensing a trend here. :D

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Pipers very very good, any trim

Excellent stuff bro

Bristel B23 is my favorite from this list; Good for training and also reasonable priced!!!

2:33 shows a bonanza instead of the pa28 lol

4:38 I think everyone likes the Panthera, I do, but it needs more sun coverage, more shade.

9:12 DA 42 ''The Safest..'' 12:55 Cirrus SR22 ''in terms of safety, in a class all it's own''. 🤪

I’ll go for the Cessna 182 Skylane

I like the Panthera bro! I'll take one black with yellow racing stripes. I'll learn to fly later.

Nice vid👌🏻🇩🇿

Something I like to consider for a personal airplane is the lowest stall speed in a landing, coupled with a high continuous top speed. The lower the landing stall is, the safer the airplane will be for off-airport landings. And he higher the top continuous speed is, the more useful the aircraft is for going places. So I would be looking at the ratio of top continuous speed to landing stall speed. The plane currently having the best of those characteristics appears to be the Risen, a two-seater composite LSA certified in the EU (but not in the US). It has a landing stall speed of 35 knots, and a top speed around 180 knots. So the ratio would be 180/35 = 5.14. Most light aircraft are only going to have a ratio around 3.0. The Risen also has a Rotax engine that can use automotive fuel, an a ballistics parachute. The downside is that in todays inflationary economy, it is a $200,000 plane -- out of reach of most of us with moderate means. And being a two-seater. it isn't a family airplane -- more like owning a motorcycle that you ride solo, or occasionally with a friend.

I'm confused why isn't the Sport Cruiser mentioned in these videos?

Diamond is beautiful but is way underpowered for the cost!! The ASTRO needs to be upgraded to higher horsepower!!

Literally all my favourite make this list. I did all my PPL training in a C152, so its close to my heart. VERY forgiving of mistakes. For anyone who's never flown a DA40... try it at LEAST once. One thing I will note about it is if you accidentally take off with flaps up instead of T/O, it'll still fly, just at a reduced angle of climb. Same with landing. You'll land a LOT flatter than with flaps LDG. Full flaps on an approach feels a bit like a controlled crash lol. Also a DA40 stall... you essentially fall like a piece of paper. There is no nose drop or wing drop.

I live in the high desert. Very windy and mountainous. For certified aircraft I chose the PA-28 235. I have landed in some pretty crazy wind, no issues. These planes are very easy to land.

C-152 is very forgiving, easy to fly, and confidence-building. As said, it is, however, more than sung for two full-sized adults. It was apparently designed for pilots weighing around 160 lbs. Know any adult males that small? Cherokees are comfortable and have good performance. Very forgiving easy to fly. Safe and sure. The best trainer IMO. Cubs are classic and lots of fun. They do require pilot skills when landing beyond Cherokees, however. 172 is much like a Cherokee as a trainer but is snugger in the cockpit. Its high wing is good for ground observation but gets in the way in a turn in the pattern. DA-40 is a great airplane and my personal choice for a trainer along with the Cherokee.

I'm learning to fly on a cub, not easy at all, don't have a clue whats going on around me when flaring... hopefully I'll get there

Love the diamond, but good luck getting the parts

Once again the Socata TB20 gets overlooked by the GA community. Best plane bang for the buck on the market.

Still love flying the 150

I learned to fly in a 1946 Aeronca Chief with a 60h.p. engine [no starter], it spun easily was loud and very cold in the winter. There were more differences in the Piper 28 series than you stated, except for cruse speed the Piper 140 was inferior to the Warrior III regarding ease of use because of the wing on the latter. 300 horsepower engines were not in the Piper 28 series, it seems that you lumped all single engine Piper PA-24, 27, 28, 32 and 38. May be you consider a 300h.p. Cherokee 6 a trainer. Cessna, didn't like the 150/152, they were noisy, small and slow, the 172 was okay, however I preferred a Piper Warrior III. The Panthera is a completely different animal and is most likely not considered a training aircraft for new student pilots by most people and FBOs, they cost a fortune and good luck finding a factory made model. I gave up covering your video at this point, it is after 12:00 a.m. here.

3:39 What is your criteria for; ''high speeds and low altitude'' ?

Call me when they ALL have a parachute system that allows for some glide rather than dropping like a rock

How the heck is there not an Ercoupe on this list? 😮

PA38 got me my wings. Evolution VL3 betters the Bristel, and is an accomplished piece of kit. Fixed gear or retractable. Highly customisable. Check the specs!

I did my PPL on a C152

OK, nice list of planes available in the USA mostly. Panther should not be there in my opinion, however, there are interesting training planes outside of the USA but well known in the USA as well. For example, Polish-made PZL 104 Wilga as primary trainer plane, classic configuration, STOL commonly used to launch gliders or win international precision flying competitions. From Czechoslovakia and now Czech Republic Zlin 42/142/242 series. Perfect tricycles trainer with aerobatics capability. It is as forgiving as C-152 or Wilga. Now let go east: Russia and its Yak 18 (among the others) Easy to fly trainer with aerobatic capabilities and some extras. Also very forgiving and extremely easy to fly. All of these planes are available in the USA and Canada. In few flying colleges in Canada Zlin is being used as a basic trainer! That raises the question: Why none of these machines were included in your list? Pather, DA62, C182 are not typical trainers for new pilots yet Wilga, Zlin, or Yak 18 are! There are many trainer aircraft worldwide available that could be included on this list, why don't you do the 10 best World Wide trainer aircraft not necessarily used as Trainers in the USA?

Cant imagine how you can see out of the cockpit of the pipistra, its so sleek there is no cabin height. the BMW seating position in a plane.

The Cirrus SR22 is absolutely not a forgiving airplane. RU-vid has quite a few videos documenting SR22 crashes, especially stalls in the landing pattern. The most forgiving plane I know of is the Navion, a very stable flyer with low stall speeds and very mild stalls. It is almost impossible to spin a Navion. The same can be said of Ercoupe, a much smaller plane that is easy to fly and very stable.

who flew first werw not the Wright brothers, but Santos Dumont. The Wright brother were "catapulted". KKKK

This was interesting, but certainly not a list of "Most Forgiving Personal Airplanes".

Prices may vary, significantly. Lol Plane prices have gone through the roof.

Gustave Whitehead....

I want to buy such airplanes rang 30 to 50 thousand & pls say about

Dwayne. I have asked you before. Do you fly? If so. Have you flown any of the planes on this list? You spoke of the Panthera as a good training airplane in a previous clip which many of us were baffled by. And in this clip you "retract" that statement. You also have a rather smug tone in this clip towards your audience. Whom many are pilots. Please tell us your experience in the cockpit. Thanks...

They are all easy if you know how.

Well well well... most forgiving? There are hundreds of airplanes more forgiving than the Cirrus or the DA42

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I'm pretty sure I can learn to fly... what bothers me is all the communications with the towers, especially as english is not my first language... it wont be tragic if I kill myself but missing some vial information could cause disaster to many... :(

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30 grand for a cub?

COM-POS-ITE

Another look at planes you will never be able to afford.

What is comp ih zit material? 🤪

I wonder what the exit plan is for all the gull wing style door planes, when the plane winds up in a ditch upside down, or upside down leaking fuel for whatever reason. They look cool, but what kind of barbeque sauce would they be thinking about for my carcass.

Parachute = not good pilot should stay on the ground or in the basement

The real problem is not "hard to fly airplanes", it's that agency we know as the FAA". It's political as hell and it's extremely easy to run afoul of those people. They're driving more people out of or away from flying than are attracted to it or actually get involved in it.

Odd way to pronounce "composite."

No aircraft (even a balloon or an ultra light) is not forgiving to fly. Without proper training and discipline you will quickly become a casualty if you do not take aviating anything you are in seriously.. Part of flying involved taking off and avoiding obstacles, landing under all kinds of wind conditions, navigating, not running out of fuel, relying on the engine to not quit or any other mechanical malfunction. ALL aircraft share these problems. No such thing as "forgiving"....

On the list of the 10 easiest airplanes to fly, number 3 is a complex. Yeah, another video by yet another aviation charlatan just looking for ad revenues. Down vote and ignore channel.