I felt like I was learning all over again! It had been about 10 years since I’d even started a piston powered airplane, I told my CFI to walk me through the start up, he kinda laughed, he finally figured out I was serious. It took 4-5 hours to get comfortable that time. This time was pretty easy, I felt at home on the first take off roll. Jets are definitely easier to fly!!
I was actually looking at 210’s, but for the money savings I can buy a lot of gas and mx! I like the 310’s, I don’t like climbing on the wing to enter, but more importantly, my wife hates it! Also I’d have to be lifting my two dogs onto the wing, and they are 50 and 60 lbs! Before we got the first 414, an old friend told me, “Don’t ever let your wife sit in a 400 series Cessna unless you plan to buy one” He was correct, it’s hard to go back!
I've read that advice from you on the forum in the past and I believe it's sound. Of course, you may not have read my standard quip that my wife hated my airplane so I had to get a new one.
It’s actually pretty quiet, the previous owner did a ton of soundproofing stuff and it works! Yeah, speeds are different for sure, but I was flying to Destin and back a lot. It was 1:00 to 1:10 in the 551 and 1:30 in the 414 and 421B. But man did I miss a lot of Amex points!
