I'm part of a 6 plane club in Minnesota with 5 Pipers and a Mooney in the fleet. With the recent addition of a m20J to the fleet the future of the much slower Arrow is potentially questionable just because it's so much slower.
While I know it'll never make M20J speeds we're contemplating putting a new "much needed" interior in our Arrow this year, and discussing the merits of putting a few thousand dollars into speed mods. Our current Arrow was gps speed checked at 3500 & 7500 at 24 squared and we came up with 124kts & 132 kts respectively. What are the most cost effective speed mods, do they work, and obviously starting with the rigging can we get another 5+ knots true out of our Arrow? We have a big club, and obviously a lot of opinions, but its tough to find much in terms of proof that they work. The local AP's opinion vary from snake oil parts, to they work which pretty much matches our members opinions. I want to try our Arrow as the test bed plane, and if any of the mods work we may look to put them on more of our fleet. The future of our Arrow in the club could depend on this...
While I know it'll never make M20J speeds we're contemplating putting a new "much needed" interior in our Arrow this year, and discussing the merits of putting a few thousand dollars into speed mods. Our current Arrow was gps speed checked at 3500 & 7500 at 24 squared and we came up with 124kts & 132 kts respectively. What are the most cost effective speed mods, do they work, and obviously starting with the rigging can we get another 5+ knots true out of our Arrow? We have a big club, and obviously a lot of opinions, but its tough to find much in terms of proof that they work. The local AP's opinion vary from snake oil parts, to they work which pretty much matches our members opinions. I want to try our Arrow as the test bed plane, and if any of the mods work we may look to put them on more of our fleet. The future of our Arrow in the club could depend on this...
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