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normy..how interesting! thanks for the insight into the airplane. i think there may be a dvd you can buy from sportys that takes you on a 'real flight' in one, but i could be wrong. i'd love to have it if it exists. i was born a few years too late. actually, just turned 42 today.

yeah, show me almost any piper warrior or cherokee tied down at most fbo's and i'll show you a single-axis a/p that doesn't work, a dg that precesses, compass that hasn't been swung in a decade..and radios? don't get me started down that path..
Perfect for flying cargo in lousy weather.

At least their "big brothers" - the PA32 (Lance), Navajo, Chieftain, etc.

Single VOR intersection holds in solid IMC over middle-o-nowhere Oregon? Sure.

God I do miss those days.
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