[Porsche-O-Phile]

Nice!

In my early cargo pilot days I flew a PA32R Lance (kind of like a Cherokee-6 on steroids). One of the runs was from Burbank up the Owens Valley (back side of the Sierra Nevada range) and up to Mammoth Lakes. I can't count the number of days I had to take off out of there in the late afternoon when it was blazing hot (density altitudes >11,000' weren't uncommon) with ripping 20 or 30-knot DIRECT crosswinds. That'll put hair on your chest for sure.

Then try doing it at night.

Does wonders for one's confidence and faith in abilities though. I was a lot more appreciative of the larger (and turbocharged) Navajos, Chieftains and the Beech 99 when I got upgraded to those eventually. I do miss the days in the Lance though - it was some crazy fun flying.