Fin and Tonic
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I am close to pulling the trigger on an existing RV-10 but my one reservation is the ability to travel with two 75lb labs.
To lay the groundwork, it's an hour and a half flight to our beach house. We would like to take the dogs with us when we duck down there for a 3 day trip. We would have very little luggage. My concern is how to get the dogs into the plane. Both are Labs and one doesn't move all that great anymore.
It would be very easy to load them in a Cherokee 6 or A36 Bonanza. But I would really prefer to have an RV-10.
I have a couple of questions for those of you that have an RV-10 and travel with your dogs:
Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks
To lay the groundwork, it's an hour and a half flight to our beach house. We would like to take the dogs with us when we duck down there for a 3 day trip. We would have very little luggage. My concern is how to get the dogs into the plane. Both are Labs and one doesn't move all that great anymore.
It would be very easy to load them in a Cherokee 6 or A36 Bonanza. But I would really prefer to have an RV-10.
I have a couple of questions for those of you that have an RV-10 and travel with your dogs:
- How do you load them? Baggage door or over the wing? If over the wing, how do you protect the paint?
- Can a Lab fit through the baggage door?
- Do you use steps or a ramp?
- I assume I could remove the rear seats and put a block of foam in the footwell when traveling with the dogs to make a larger flat area for them to lie down.
- Is there anything I need to consider that I may be overlooking?
Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks