[Main C900 Bulletin Board | BBFAQ | Prev by Date | Next by Date | Post Followup ] Member Login / Signup - Members see fewer ads. - Latest Member Gallery Photos Once- Like This Post: - Subscribe to Daily Digest for this Bulletin Board Posted by IrieTom [Email] (#1032) [Profile/Gallery] (more from IrieTom) on Fri, 12 Apr 2002 01:21:51 In Reply to: Anyone ever flown in a cessna?, Scalera, Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:24:43 Alert me when someone posts in this thread: Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup

In January '99, I was the best man at the wedding of my friends Chilo and Renee in Atlanta. A couple of the other guys in the wedding party had flown down from Montreal in a Cessna owned by a friend of theirs who they "hired" for a week. The day of the wedding, after nursing some hangovers from the bachelor party the night before, we had a few hours to burn before the late afternoon ceremony, and the pilot suggested that we go for a cruise in his plane.

I think it was a Cessna 160 or 170, and that it was rated at approximately 160 horsepower. It was a 4-seater, and I was lucky enough to get the co-pilot's seat and was able to take the controls for 5 or 10 minutes or so once we were aloft. We were flying VFR (visual flight rules) and got lost for a while, ironically using a road map to figure out where we were. For a while, we were joking that we would have to land in the church parking lot if we couldn't find the airport.

I believe that a SAAB 900 has more substantial doors than a Cessna, but they are similar in size and configuration- I doubt that the back seat was as comfortable in the plane as my car. I was definately impressed that the plane cabin was the same size as the passenger compartment in a 900.

I think that small planes are way more fun than big airliners.



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• Anyone ever flown in a cessna?, Scalera, Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:24:43
  • I prefer Pipers over Cessnas but SAAB's over anything.., Todd N, Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:48:35
  • 5 times a week! n/m, Quinn S. Kurz, Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:50:01
  • Yep. 1947 Cessna 140? Taildragger. Awesome. n/m, Texron, Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:47:10
    • Re:Cessna 140 Taildragger. learned on one n/m, JohnK, Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:12:40
  • Re: Anyone ever flown in a cessna?, EricU, Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:44:48
    • heh, no reverse lock on the prop? nm., Simon S, Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:52:57
  • Proposed to my wife in a Cessna :) nm, MichaelG, Fri, 12 Apr 2002 08:55:36
    • not binding over 5,280 ft n//m, patprice, Fri, 12 Apr 2002 15:12:09
  • Once-, IrieTom , Fri, 12 Apr 2002 01:21:51 <-- Viewing This Message
    • Re: Once-, RS , Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:45:16
  • I've jumped out from one many times, in flight. n/m, Anders, Fri, 12 Apr 2002 01:03:40
    • And the plane was still working? ;-) n/m, EricU, Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:46:44
      • Haven't heard that before, LOL .n/m, Anders, Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:43:46
        • At least he didn't say "perfectly good", I also have, Bill U, Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:55:44
          • That's why you never hear, jumped out of a Saab. >>, Anders, Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:37:01

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