Hello,
I am about 90% sure that I want to build an RV and am trying to decide between a 7A and a 9A. I don't want to be upside down, even for the tiny amount of time that an RV needs to do a roll, so acrobatics isn't a factor. What I do want is a nice machine for IFR x-c and for tooling around the patch on nice sunny days.
I have not flown in an RV so all I have to go on thus far is what I have read, that the 9 is more stable than the 7. My perspective is kind of skewed: a ton o' time in Cherokees with Hershey bar wings so to me, stable means it's hard to tell that I'm not sitting in my easy chair in my living room.
How would a 7A be as a x-c machine? I'll have an autopilot installed, of course, but I need to know that all aboard will be safe if the a/p craps out in heavy weather. What's it like to hand-fly a 7 in IMC?
Thanks,
-- Art Z.
I am about 90% sure that I want to build an RV and am trying to decide between a 7A and a 9A. I don't want to be upside down, even for the tiny amount of time that an RV needs to do a roll, so acrobatics isn't a factor. What I do want is a nice machine for IFR x-c and for tooling around the patch on nice sunny days.
I have not flown in an RV so all I have to go on thus far is what I have read, that the 9 is more stable than the 7. My perspective is kind of skewed: a ton o' time in Cherokees with Hershey bar wings so to me, stable means it's hard to tell that I'm not sitting in my easy chair in my living room.
How would a 7A be as a x-c machine? I'll have an autopilot installed, of course, but I need to know that all aboard will be safe if the a/p craps out in heavy weather. What's it like to hand-fly a 7 in IMC?
Thanks,
-- Art Z.