My 415D and Pete Hogan's A2 share the same piece of real estate. They seem to get along just fine, a helluva lot better than some folks here.
The Alon is smooth clean and refined. One of the slickest, most well-packaged and finished airplanes I've ever seen. Feng Shui before anyone heard of such a thing over here. Up there with the Myers planes, and precursors of the way Pipers are put together today (finally!). My 415 is a relic of a time when they were just figuring out how to put together an all-aluminum hull. A time when the Piper Vagabond was the standard of excellence! They're different, that's for sure. The 415 feels lighter, and more nimble. Say what you will about the sliding canopy and/or back windows, when the 415's is open you can really feel like you're in an open plane. I flew mine from Columbus, OH to New Jersey in a day. That probably puts me, realistically, in the top 10% of Coupe owners in terms of how far they've gone in a day, maybe how far they've gone, period. On other than a perfect day, I'd take the Alon for that trip next time. On a perfect day, I'd take the 415. For an afternoon of knocking about the area, again, my 415. I think you can put together a 415 that needs nothing very often, for about what a cherry Alon would cost. I look at my 415 for much the same role that a Fly Baby or a Corbin Junior Ace would fill. I look at Pete's Alon as a bit less recreational, but a nicer travelin' machine. Yank the header, at the 30 gallon wing tanks, and put a stack of King goodies in it plus some electric gyros (or an O200 with a vacuum pump) and you might just have as good an IFR machine as anything less than a Cessna 182 could be. All in all, they're all pretty nifty. Greg __________________________________________________________________________ ______ To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________________ Want to find the best email lists? Check out the Topica 20! http://www.topica.com/topica20
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