Welcome to the Piper Seneca V. Learn about all the great features this aircraft has to offer and hear from an actual Piper owner about the Piper ownership experience.
georgeous airplane pipers builds the best Aircraft i absolutly love the piper seneca v cool avionics,damn wish i had one havent flown a plane in over thirty years.
I had a Cherokee six 300 for 10 years back in the 80’s! The cabin was large and comfortable! Flew a Senaca once, big performance gain! Would love to have a Senaca today but stuck having to drive an RV instead!
Flew a Seneca III for about ten years. Loved "my baby" to death until a change in my business (less travel) and the demands of two concurrent college tuitions force me to day goodbye. After another ten years, I'm still crying!!
Gordon! Looking good my friend. Very professional and well done overview of the Seneca. If You didn't sell me my wonderful Cirrus. I was seriously considering, as you know, a Saratoga or a Seneca. I am a former Cherokee Six owner and to this day, count it among over a dozen airplanes I've owned over the years, to be in the top three. Great planes. See you at a QB meeting soon!
Love it when he talks about how economical it is. LOL. If you can afford a 1 million + dollar airplane, you're probably not too concerned about flying it economically.
I had a Seneca 2 after graduating from college. It was the most fun I ever had in an airplane. Hopefully, I will someday be able to afford the Seneca 5. Truly excellent airplane.
Best aircraft in class, multiproporse, larger capacity for payload, short takeoff and landing, all terrain operation, great ranger and economic fuel burn, high level flight because turbo engine. In brazil, largest use in shuttler service, cargo, aeromedic, executive.
yea i love the cub and how old timey it feels but it does have that really far forward center of lift in front of the center of mass so that can be bothersome when you're trying to descend while turning.
I really don’t get why Piper doesn’t bring back the PA39 though. The flight training market keeps growing, time builders seek out economical twins , and owners flying 250-300hp singles already burn more fuel and have similar overhaul cost. They would be all be taking a real hard look at it at an updated PA39. It’s not like Piper doesn’t have the blueprints sitting somewhere that they could use. Make some new jigs and re-start production. Sure the Seneca is nice too but 80k for overhauling 2 TSIO360’s vs 40k for 2 IO/LIO360’s plus the extra 8GPH increases hourly expenses significantly. With the current insane cost of AV gas I’m actually surprised they haven’t brought it back yet. Back in the 70s when fuel was cheap it made more sense to focus on the larger twins. Now not so much, just look at what diamond is doing DA42 11GPH-16GPH A PA39 would kill the DA42 production line within months. Both planes are 11-16GPH cruise, but one has $60k per side diesel overhauls, and the other $25k per side. Flight training units would be selling their DA42s en mass to lower their operating expenses.
The Twin Comanche had IO-320s not 360s. The reason they don't start production again is there's no market for it. The cost to update the PA39 would mean it'd probably sell for the same price as a Seneca V, so it wouldn't be the same value it was way back when.
Price wouldn’t be much of an issue. Should be similar to a Seminole but faster and more fuel efficient. I can get 10gph on my PA30 if I want to go slow, and demand seems to be there. People always trying to offer and buy it, and we never have an issue renting out block time
Years ago I flew an older model of the Seneca for an on demand freight company. On the ramp the body angle of the airplane is nose up, tail down. That feature along with the Seneca not having windshield wipers combined with a dark rainy night makes taxiing around in low/poor visibility a challenge with rain and rain drops obscuring visibility from a windshield one can't "clear". The engines are out on the wing so there is no relief from the props getting the rain/rain drops off the windshield. Any weigh in the back only makes it worse. In flight the Seneca is a stable IFR platform. Overall the Seneca is nice light twin. I preferred the Piper Navajo Chieftain: SOLID airframe, workhorse, respectable performance, much better visibility and if I remember correctly it had windshield wipers!!
The cost to certify the Seneca with a diesel would never be recouped. It's not like Piper sells hundreds of these planes every year to absorb the cost of certification.
O pior aviao feito ate hoje . O I não presta , o II tambem não. Refizeram uma porcaria com o III , mantiveram a mesma porcaria no IV e como não poderia deixar de ser , completaram uma merda de projeto com o V . Talvez com 2 a bordo e em excelentes condições de tempo consiga voar monomotor . Muito instavel em condições IFR e uma droga no final das contas . Se já fizeram um aviaozinho merda este é o seneca , seja qual for , do I ao V , nenhum deles presta .
