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What is a good training airplane?

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Gisbon

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

There are a few. Right now, the safest primary trainer is probably the Diamond DA-20. Diamond started out making gliders, so their planes have a real long glideslope--14:1, or 14 feet of forward flight for every foot of descent. IOW, if you're 1000 feet off the ground and the engine dies, you can go 14,000 feet before the plane is on the ground. (Some DA-20s have an 11:1 glideslope--not quite as good as 14:1 but still very respectable.) The problem with the DA-20 is no one in his right mind would buy one as his only airplane. It's a two-seater that flies slow. If you want to train in the airplane you'll eventually buy, there are, to me, only four real choices: the primary trainers are the Cessna 173 and Warrior; the advanced trainers are the Piper Arrow and Cessna Skylane. If you want the plane to train for a commercial certificate, go with the Piper--Cessnas don't have retractable gear, which the Piper does. There's one other trainer you need to know about--the Piper Seminole. It has two engines. If you want to fly for an airline, even a regional, they look at your multiengine time because transport aircraft are all multiengine.

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