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Chrysler Town & Country. A pair of torpedo-shaped fuel tanks (64 gallons each)
hang under the wings.
Each aileron has a counterweight the
size of a broom handle protruding downward. The straight vertical stabilizer and
rudder are conventional but appear mismatched since the rudder counterweight
above the vertical fin only covers half its
length. The feng shui is all wrong.
Boarding the airplane is like climbing
a jungle gym. Two indented steps on the
side of the Wipline 6100 floats allow you
to stand on the sandpaper top. Then two
more steps on the struts lead to the cockpit
side doors which, delightfully, are mostly
Plexiglas. Step inside the broad cockpit,
slide into the left seat, and secure the fourpoint harness.
The panel is dominated by a pair of
10.4-inch Garmin G950 glass-panel displays that are identical to G1000s but
lack an integrated autopilot. Engine
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controls are on a pedestal at the center of the panel (like a de Haviland DHC-2
Beaver) and gauges, switches, and circuit breakers are logically laid out.
Engine start is normal for a PT6A, and noise-cancelling Bose A20 headsets make
Gitchenko's lightly accented directions easy to understand.
There's a 12-knot breeze blowing from the east and the lightly loaded airplane
(three people and 90 gallons of fuel) is rock solid as we taxi to Runway 9 Left at Bartow
Municipal Airport. Pretakeoff checks are normal and we set half flaps (20 degrees) before
starting the takeoff roll.
Acceleration is moderate with 1,450 foot-pounds of torque, and we reach the rotation
speed of 55 knots after a ground roll of about 800 feet. Moderate back-pressure gets the
nosewheels off the ground, and we accelerate to 80 knots in a 12-degree nose-up attitude.
The landing gear takes about one minute to fully retract as four lights on the gear
position system gradually change from green to blue. Then I raise the electric flaps and
we climb at 1,000 feet per minute at 90 KIAS.
Control forces are moderate and well balanced, and visibility is outstanding-especially downward, thanks to the clear doors. There's hardly any distortion, even at the
edges of the curved windshield.
Stalls are laughably benign and they're preceded by pronounced aerodynamic buffeting as well as piercing aural warnings. Unaccelerated power-off stalls take place at
60 KIAS with the Fowler flaps up, and 48 KIAS with them fully down. Accelerated and
turning stalls require so much back-pressure on the stick at normal elevator trim settings
that a pilot would have to be juiced to have both the physical strength and mental cluelessness to perform one inadvertently.
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