Afternoon all,
I am getting close to finishing my private pilot training and am starting to look for a Cherokee due to our club plane getting harder and harder to schedule.
I want to stay under $35000. In this price range for a nice plane it seems like an early to mid 60s 180 or an early 70s 150/160.
It's just me and my wife, no kids. We would be flying in the north east mostly, so no big mountains. I don't mind the slower speed of the 150, the reason I was looking into the 180 was for the baggage door (To maybe squeeze 2 folding bikes in) and the ability to take another couple for diner now and then.
When we would take another couple, the total weight of all 4 people would be about 700lbs.
I am also fasinated with Art Matson's mods due to some short grass runways out my way. And alot of the 150s have some of them.
Any thoughts comments questions etc that would help me narrow my search would be most helpful
Thanks!
I am getting close to finishing my private pilot training and am starting to look for a Cherokee due to our club plane getting harder and harder to schedule.
I want to stay under $35000. In this price range for a nice plane it seems like an early to mid 60s 180 or an early 70s 150/160.
It's just me and my wife, no kids. We would be flying in the north east mostly, so no big mountains. I don't mind the slower speed of the 150, the reason I was looking into the 180 was for the baggage door (To maybe squeeze 2 folding bikes in) and the ability to take another couple for diner now and then.
When we would take another couple, the total weight of all 4 people would be about 700lbs.
I am also fasinated with Art Matson's mods due to some short grass runways out my way. And alot of the 150s have some of them.
Any thoughts comments questions etc that would help me narrow my search would be most helpful
Thanks!
