Cherokee 180B usable fuel, and v-speeds

clestudentpilot

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A few questions I was hoping someone could help me out with. I got a checkout a few months ago in an Archer, and had a lot of the same questions that you guys helped me out with. I will be getting a checkout in a 1963 CherokeeB 180. The POH (owners manual, handbook, whatever you want to call it) is very poor, and does not list some basic info. My questions if anyone can answer are:

1. Usable fuel? Total fuel is 50 gallons, and an Archer has 48 usable, but this POH says nothing about usable, it only mentions capacity.
2. Va, Vne, Vno? Again, nothing in the POH about these speeds, I again would imagine the same or close to the Archer, although Vs, and Vs0 are different, so these may be as well.
3. Max. demonstrated crosswind component? Again, Archer is 17 kts, but nothing in the POH about it, although I never could find it in the Archer POH, but everyone here said it is 17 kts.
4. I am assuming that the limitation on slips are the same in this aircraft as an Archer, but I don't know, the Archer POH just says to avoid prolonged slips, and I would have to assume since it is almost the same aircraft that it is the same.
5. Anyone know if short/soft field takeoffs are the same flaps as an Archer, which is 25 degrees? The POH for the Cherokee 180 talks about short/soft field landings, but nothing about takeoffs, but again, I would have to assume it is the same.

Thank you in advance for any help that cam be offered. I did google search this, the only problem is you never know how reliable some sites are, and I trust info I can get here much more.
 
I know this appears as a thread bump, but that is not my intention, so sorry, I could not revise my original post. Does anyone know why the earlier Cherokee 180's had a fairly odd weight and balance range? They don't come all that close to Archers W&B ranges. Like most aircraft, there is a diagonal line for forward balance, but it is much more extreme than I have ever seen on an airplane. Just wondering, I am a big guy, and I have been crunching numbers to get a checkout in this airplane, and it will be tough to do until I lose some weight (or the guy I want to do the checkout with does haha). Just wondering if anyone knows why this is so much different than Archer W&B
 
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