Is this the Honda Civic of the sky? Let's take a tour of my Piper Cherokee 140 and I will explain to you why I think it is the closest thing to a Honda Civic as an airplane can be.
Holy crap! I used to be part owner of CF-CFK back in the mid 1970's. It was based at CYKF. Yes it is a great airplane. I see it has much newer and perhaps nicer paint than back then. As I recall it has wings that were designed for speed, and you could routinely cruise at 130-140 MPH (we had a different prop). Many excellent memories of flying this great airplane! Glad to see it still has a life and a good owner! Nice upgrades to the old steam gauges. I guess you don't do dead reckoning navigation with paper maps anymore :)
Omg that is amazing! Now I want to dig into the logbooks to find your entries. The aviation community is just the best. As for the speed, they removed some of the speed mods when they repainted the plane in the early 2000’s. Not sure why they didn’t put them back. And the guy I bought her from is the one who put a climb prop on her. When I overhaul the engine I’ll go back to a cruise prop. Paper maps are still a requirement for the flight tests. But other then that, almost no one still uses them day to day.
@@DonatFlyingAdventures If I more carefully search my memory, I believe we bought it in 1977 or 78. It had a newly overhauled engine with only one or two hundred hours on it since overhaul. I recall it was $10k for the plane (and something like $2k/yr for insurance) which in the late 70's was a lot more than 10k is now, valuewise. I do not recall blue seats though, my recollection was a beige or brown colour on the interior upholstery. But I could be mistaken. We did not have the rear seats when we bought it, but had them installed afterward. Still looks like the original instruments I remember though for the remaining ones in the dash. Trim crank still on the ceiling? These days I don't fly for real anymore, but I did discover a few years back that desktop flight simulation has gotten VERY good at flight modeling. NOT MicroSloth, that is merely eye candy without a decent flight model, I am speaking of Xplane, now Xplane 12. The first thing I did was find a freeware PA28-140 and tested the sim for accuracy as I know the plane's behavior inside out. And I was amazed at how totally realistic the simulation models all of the flight regimes throughout the envelope! Recently I revamped the bad flight model of a Gulfstream jet for a vendor who got the visual details right but totally screwed up the flight model as seen in the following: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AZJFaF_M_UI.html Anyway, glad to see the beast (CFK) is still flying and being treated well. Keep the blue side up!
Ya the trim is still on the ceiling. I’ve played a bit with Flight sims but I still prefer the real deal. I’ll let you know if I find your entries in the logbooks. But she’s still flying strong and hopefully for a good while still.
Nice 140! I’m impressed how good the interior is for an original. I’ve always like the Aspen, it’s the perfect ‘drop in’ for the standard 6 pack. Cheers, Doug
Nice walkthrough. I am currently renting a '66 Cherokee 140 without the toe brakes and the basic 'ol VFR six-pack. Like the panel updates. surprisingly, I don't miss the toe brakes all that much other than when I'm making a sharp turn for a tiedown. Other than it's a little cramped for even two bigger people in the front seat, it's a nice little bird compared to the used up 172's I used to rent.
Ya it can get a bit tight with 2 big guys, but for me and the wife up front, it’s perfect. And that’s the thing with 172’s, most flight schools have used and abused models. And also, low wing is much more sexy. Not to mention that 140’s are still affordable compared to the 172’s.
My first car was a brown 81 Honda Civic and my first airplane was a Beech Sundowner (similar performances to your Piper Cherokee). I have about 50 hrs in a piper 140 and it's a wonderful airplane to own and easy to fly. I loved your sloth monkey. You make very good contents in your videos!
Whhhaaaazzzuppp ?? Donat...I was an airport brat when my Dad was CFI'ing at a rural field outside of Charlotte, NC. called Carpenter Airport. My father would allow me to sit in those tiny chidren's rear seats and "observe" him teaching his students to fly, back when they still cut off the lower part of your shirt after you "soloed" to hang on a nail inside the office. I flew with my Dad in Cherokee 140's, 160's, and I believe they had a 180 hp also. I most remember going up in a brand-new Mooney, had that great new carpet smell, like new cars, with "johnson-bar" retracts and slick handling. Much different from Piper's "milk-stool" TriPacer, but I liked it, too, grew to like high wing aircraft after that mostly because of better views. I stood on the tarmac one hot summer afternoon when I saw that beautiful Mooney come sailing over the fence to land, but never noticed the gear wasn't down, and the pilot forgot it, too ! It made a lot of noise as the prop whacked the asphalt and then the bottom of the fuselage screeched and tore down the runway until it ground to a halt. The airport had an old Suburban with fire extinguishers it it, the management peeled out in that thing with me in the back as well. I'll never forget that pilot exiting the Mooney on wobbly legs and couldn't help but see he had "pissed himself" during the debacle. I'm sure we all would have. I wouldn't give those memories up for love nor money, it was an education into thrilling machines, motorcycles mainly, but I know I would have made a good pilot, too. At 71, I'm a little late and too broke. But I still have my 1993 BMW K-75 two-wheeled tourer in the garage.
Fun video. I went with the high wing first edition cessnacivic 150. I’ll fly a low wing eventually but I cannot be bothered to squeeze into a plane…. Although getting into a 150 isn’t much better lol. I’m looking forward to hearing about winter flying considerations. I don’t have to worry about that too much in GA but I like the thought of winter flying. Thanks again for your efforts.
Ya those 150’s aren’t very big either. I never bothered trying to fit in one lol. As for the winter flying, well that time of year is just around the corner. So expect some winter content coming your way sooner than later. Thanks for the support.
I rebuilt the aircraft after finding it abandoned 12 years in a hangar. ATC zero timed engine. I have never owned a Cherokee before so impressions not relative. I have flown since 1975. @@DonatFlyingAdventures
Thanks! The white box behind the seat is actually a DIY version of the stratus. I don’t quite remember the name. However I haven’t used it in a while since I upgraded to the Garmin GDL52.
Low cost in the context of aircraft is not what people not in aviation think. Low cost means it will cost you $70-80 per hour to fly if you fly around 100 hours per year, plus the cost of the aircraft. That amounts to about 12-15k per year up to the high side of 30k per year, again not including the cost of purchasing the aircraft. It’s really not comparable to a car in any way shape or form. It’s not like buying a literal Honda civic!
Are the front seats able to move forward like a Cessna so to give more leg room for the back seat passengers? Can the back seats slide out for more storage?
The fronts seats do move back and forth like in a Cessna. But if you want to be able to pilot the plane, you won’t leave much room behind the front seats. The rear seats are fixed however.
Nice video. The Warrior is the only Piper I have flown. The only other small planes I have flown include Cessna and Beechcraft. 99% of my flying has been in heavy transport jets, so this little tour really brought me back to my early days. It looks like a nice little airport you are flying out of. Enjoy it while you can - we have a President that is trying to eliminate all fuel use. If he succeeds, it will affect Canada also.... ru-vid.com/show-UC0jlEeTPzQTK1GRVwGRZkew
