Anthony- I knew I could count on you to mention the AA-1 series.  From what I've seen of those, wouldn't it be a trivial cost differential to just buy a Cheetah or maybe even a Tiger, then I could capture more of my mission profile (those occasions I need to fill all the seats)?

You really pay a premium for the extra seats and HP, especially in the Tiger.  A Cheetah or even a Traveller would be a good compromise though, and you could at least carry three pretty easily.  I found the back seats of my Tiger was usually empty or just had bags on the seats, but I did like having the higher performance and load carrying capabilities, but it does come at a cost up front, and to operate (mostly fuel burn).

When I am in the market for another plane, I may try the Mooney M20 series, but I want to get more hours in them. 

^^^^^Look, look!  You can actually see the global warming research ship, and all the ice breakers stuck in the ice!!!

That wasn't my intention. My fault for being vague. Let me clarify:

There is an overwhelming amount of evidence supporting that man has influenced climate change. You can argue about how involved the government should get, what moral obligations we have to try to affect it, and other matters of opinion, but simply denying it is ignorant.

There is NOT an overwhelming amount of evidence that man has influenced climate.  The evidence that has been trotted out are flawed models with bad assumptions in order to get the outcome they want.  The hockey stick graph and the like is pure BS.

Conservative News Room?  Pfffft. I'm not going to even read it as it's obviously Faux.



OK, that was my attempt at being a Spin Zone liberal. How did I do?

You did scaringly well.   

If it were just me flying by myself, I'd probably look for a Grumman AA1/A, B, or C.  Inexpensive to operate, and a few knots faster than similarly powered trainers.  They are a blast to fly, also and have nice handling characteristics. 

I'll hold my nose and vote for the Hildebeast for two reasons.  The first is I think she'd actually make an impressive POTUS.  All these guys lie their heads off, so I'm not that worried about that.  The second is if she does become POTUS its going to be so fun listening to you guys bitch about it!

So you are OK with Hillary's stated polices of more, and more entlitelment programs administered by are oh so efficient Federal Goverment, and higher, and higher taxes.  She kept one upping Bernie Sanders dduring the "debate", and he advocates a 90% income tax rate!

Amazing isn't it?  Man Made Global Climate Change is the biggest hoax ever.  Governments, and politicians figured out that just taxing people more may be unpopular so they thought up a "good" reason to confiscate even more money from the productive.  Let's SAVE THE PLANET!  Then they got a bunch of useful idiots to believe in this goofy religion.

I agree with what you said, but the question was specific to Grumman flying.  I've heard that it can get away from you as it's not a fly by feel airplane.  Or maybe I have been misinformed???

Tigers, Cheetahs, and Travelers are docile airplanes although they do have better control response, and are lighter on the controls.  Tigers and Cheetahs are pretty slick for a fixed gear plane, so will float if you come in hot.  If you don't display good speed control, and try to force it down onto the runway you can get into pilot induce oscillation.  The cure to that is to just hold it off if you have enough runway, or just go around. 

The two seat AA1 (original slick wing) demand speed control also, and you don't want to get behind the power curve on these low, and slow as they will break pretty quickly, without too much warning.  The later AA1A, AA1B, and AA1C have a different wing but still require discpline in speed control, but give you a bit more margin.  They don't "get away from you" unless you either don't have training in them or just not flying them properly, but they are not any more dangerous than other planes if you fly them like they should be flown, and learning that is not difficult.