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    Default Re: Pa12

    I always get a chuckle out of it when people ask me "do you really fly that thing IFR?". When I tell them there is no difference flying "that thing" IFR than flying a C-172 or Piper Cherokee IFR they say "but it is a fabric airplane". O well, ........

    Juergen
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Pierce View Post
    I think there are a lot of people in our airplanes market who are afraid of tube and fabric airplanes.
    That I never got. Just spent two months with a buddy helping him work on spam cans. So much work just to do a simple repair. Somebody dinged a wingtip on a hangar door and it took days to pull apart and repair (wrinkled last 16" of the wing and crushed fiberglass wingtip). I swear if it'd been a ragwing I'd have had it do everything in an afternoon. I guess what I'm getting at is that I think the tube and fabric is easier to maintain and repair.

    As for the pa12, that was the bird I was wanting (but could not afford) when I wound up with my shortwing. O-320, flaps, cub gear and feathers and you'd have a very capable bird
    Last edited by JPerkins; 01-04-2017 at 10:42 AM.

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