What GA Airplane Were You Meant to Fly? (AOPA Quiz)

1000 HP · Post by **1000 HP** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 3:17 am

Yeah I got the G36 too. I own a Mooney M20F and I like flying it but I'd like something with a radial and about 100 kts faster. Hmmm...

rt777 · Post by **rt777** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 5:45 am

Colonel Sanders wrote:
911
Chick car.

The 911 is not a chick car, thats the Boxsters job!

halfmilevis · Post by **halfmilevis** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 6:12 am

I also got Mooney 201... Beggining to think this is all a marketing ploy

PilotDAR · Post by **PilotDAR** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:22 am

It assigned me a C-185, which I guess is okay. Maybe I would have scored a Feisler Storch, if I'd picked 30's and 40's....

YYZSaabGuy · Post by **YYZSaabGuy** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:59 am

Beech 18 for me, which is cool.
Pretty sure Matt Younkin doesn't need to stay up nights worrying.

Waldo Peppar · Post by **Waldo Peppar** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:19 am

I got the 180/185.....the program is dead on!
I fly a 185 amphib and a C337 these days.

all_ramped_up · Post by **all_ramped_up** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 11:03 am

I got the Bonanza G36... could deal with bombing around in one of those!

bmc · Post by **bmc** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 1:15 pm

Debonair

Pop n Fresh · Post by **Pop n Fresh** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 1:21 pm

rt777 wrote:
Colonel Sanders wrote:
911
Chick car.
The 911 is not a chick car, thats the Boxsters job!

boxter was not on the list.

New_PIC · Post by **New_PIC** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 2:50 pm

I did this yesterday and got the Mooney 201 as well (a google search tells me that was a marketing nickname and it's actually an M20J). I picked the Ferrari though so it's not just a Porsche that puts you into one.

I've only flown a few school/rental types so far and don't really know what I'd most enjoy so maybe they're right. The reality may not match my expectations but I think I'd rather try some unusual attitudes.

lownslow · Post by **lownslow** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 2:54 pm

Looks like I need to start looking for a Globe Swift, too.

Nice to see AOPA used a picture of Fern Villeneuve's airplane to illustrate the Swift.

LnS.

Colonel Sanders · Post by **Colonel Sanders** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 3:41 pm

Swiped it from the wiki. Photo was
taken at my airport. I mowed the
grass it's sitting on.

Shiny Side Up · Post by **Shiny Side Up** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:01 pm

lownslow wrote:Looks like I need to start looking for a Globe Swift, too.

Nice to see AOPA used a picture of Fern Villeneuve's airplane to illustrate the Swift.

LnS.

I didn't notice that. If its good enough for Fern, well then its good enough for me. Hmm. I think I know where a Swift lives. I might have to go bother some people.

Colonel Sanders · Post by **Colonel Sanders** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:08 pm

Temco Globe Swift has had a dizzying
array of engines installed over the decades.

Original was C-85 Continental. IIRC:

O-300 145hp TCM
O-360 180hp Lyc
IO-360 210hp TCM
220hp Franklin

I am not a big fan of the hydraulic gear.

Some people don't like the big holes in
the bottom of the wings for 3-point landings
and recommends wheelies.

They are all so old ... Roy LoPresti, a couple
decades back, tried to revive it. Painted it
sexy yellow, it was on all the glossy magazine
covers. I think Piper might have tried to
take the project over, but dropped it during
one of the bankruptcies.

There are a surprising number of survivors
over the many decades. A friend of mine has
a polished one with O-300. Nice airplane. It's
not unusual to get three of them together at
Gatineau every once in a while.

Nice to see Fern got his medical back. I know
they were after him - "too old to fly".

Scout44 · Post by **Scout44** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:53 pm

Got the C-185.... Most of my experience is tailwheel so I can appreciate being labelled a Skywagon. Nice quiz.

GyvAir · Post by **GyvAir** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 5:08 pm

I see nobody but nobody here is selecting BRS as essential equipment..

iflyforpie · Post by **iflyforpie** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 5:19 pm

GyvAir wrote:I see nobody but nobody here is selecting BRS as essential equipment..

Let me guess... it default's you to a Cirrus?

I've always loved the Globe Swift..... it reminds me of a poor man's Spartan Executive--especially when polished.

Colonel Sanders · Post by **Colonel Sanders** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 5:37 pm

What do you need to say about BRS
to get this as your aircraft?

Believe it or not, 1935. When giants
walked the earth.

flyinthebug · Post by **flyinthebug** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 6:15 pm

G36 as well. Disappointing. I guess a lot of us want to escape to a remote island and drive a Ferrari & Harley around it

PilotDAR · Post by **PilotDAR** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 7:38 pm

I see nobody but nobody here is selecting BRS as essential equipment

Well not for a plane I'm going to fly! I would never take the time during the emergency to look for the checklist, to work may way down to the fourth item of "locate and pull handle". I'd be busy flying the plane! C-185 with a BRS - Ha! It'd likely get tangled in the float rigging or ski check cables anyway! Better just to fly it.....

RadicalRadial · Post by **RadicalRadial** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 7:34 pm

Spartan Executive, which is actually one of my favorite airplanes so I'd say this quiz is accurate.

Luscombe · Post by **Luscombe** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 7:56 pm

I got the Beech 18. Ironically, I have a few hours from my first flying job a long time ago back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. I found it a handful then, but without an FMC, flight directors, autopilot, auto throttle, auto land etc... I'd probably find it a handful today too.

boogs82 · Post by **boogs82** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 3:50 am

Mooney 201

Lotro · Post by **Lotro** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 6:34 pm

I got the Beechcraft Baron. I have no idea what the hell that says about me. Incidentally I did "fly" one once, from the right seat, with the auto-pilot on

Rookie50 · Post by **Rookie50** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 7:47 pm

Mooney 201.....

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