Piper Navajo flying tips?

From the linked (closed ) thread: There were only 50 Pnavs made?????

Used to fly one for years. I remember most about that airplane: Someone penciled in on the single engine checklist : "Pick something soft and cheap".

EDIT: Google says 259 were built.
 
Itchy said:
From the linked (closed ) thread: There were only 50 Pnavs made?????

Used to fly one for years. I remember most about that airplane: Someone penciled in on the single engine checklist : "Pick something soft and cheap".

EDIT: Google says 259 were built.
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Someone is confusing the P-Navajo with the Mojave. Only 50 Mojaves were built. And, from looking through that thread, that idiot was me :)

Alex.
 
Roger said:
IIRC the 350s that have the calco flap system let you have flaps 15 and maybe even flaps 30 at 162 knots. That could be gear speed I'm thinking of though. I have the mx manual on here, but I can't find flap limit speeds in there to double check... Go figure.
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-350's are 162 up to 30deg. -325's are 158. Gear down is 154 on both and up is 129. From what I have heard, Amflight uses lower gear speeds because they were having problems with gear doors cracking. Jtrain can weigh in on that one though.
 
mshunter said:
-350's are 162 up to 30deg. -325's are 158. Gear down is 154 on both and up is 129. From what I have heard, Amflight uses lower gear speeds because they were having problems with gear doors cracking. Jtrain can weigh in on that one though.
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Different models can take different speeds. -325 is slower, so in case you were flying a different one, they used 120 if IRC.
 
mshunter said:
-350's are 162 up to 30deg. -325's are 158. Gear down is 154 on both and up is 129. From what I have heard, Amflight uses lower gear speeds because they were having problems with gear doors cracking. Jtrain can weigh in on that one though.
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If I remember correctly, it was more like ripping gear doors off.
 
jtrain609 said:
If I remember correctly, it was more like ripping gear doors off.
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There is an AD on chieftain gear door hinges, pull them off and dye pen them every x hours. I wonder if amflight had the original aluminum ones or the better steel ones.
 
Been a long time since I flew the old 'hoe. Trickiest thing I found was getting it to start - ours required some interesting mixture work, but not at all hard just different. Good bird to handle ice too as I recall. Deadringer86 I think nailed the other quirks. I also remember how quickly the thing will sink when you're all dirtied up with low power.
 
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