Most demanding airplane?

[Cat Driver]

What was the most demanding airplane you have flown?

For me it was the Grumman Turbo Goose, especially docking solo.

[salt water cow poke]

The shuttle took a bit to get a handle of!!

[beechnut]

The one I am in.

Beech

[xsbank]

Firecat.

[Big Pistons Forever]

A C150 with 40 degrees of flap

[Meatservo]

I find the relative demanding-ness of different aeroplanes to be small potatoes compared to the relative demanding-ness of the different things we have to do with them.

[FICU]

1960s Merlin SW2A. Swearingen's first home built twin turbo prop with PT6-20s !

[Chuck Finley]

Does keeping the props of a clapped out 337 without a prop sync in-sync count?

[BKerns]

748 full of 12 packs of cola... Why do they even make those stupid 12 packs!

[golden hawk]

Non-turbocharged Aerostar over Green Bay

[flyinhigh]

Maule rocket on floats during landing,

Plane has an unusual nose high attitude naturally while one floats, puter in the flair and it was interesting.

[55+]

Landing(or trying to) a Canso in a cross-wind, I was never any good at it..

[sovereign]

By far The R4D8 (super DC-3) Your ears would ache on takeoff and very poor in crosswinds over 10kt (very little rudder movement)

[Cat Driver]

By far The R4D8 (super DC-3) Your ears would ache on takeoff and very poor in crosswinds over 10kt (very little rudder movement)

Ahh for sure but the sucker sure did perform compared to the straight DC3.

[andy_mtl]

A pa-31-310 with 11 people on board moving to get ready to jump, it's not so pretty.

[oldtimer]

Many pilots will agree and many pilots will disagree but I found the Swearingen/Fairchilld SA 226TC Metro 2 to be a demanding airplane to fly the way it was designed to be flown but if it is flown the way it was designed to be flown it is a safe airplane. Fly the approach at Vref and it is a sweetheart, Vref -10 and it is a bitch. Loose an engine and it will fly IF THE BALL IS IN THE CENTER. Use the rudder pedals as foot rests as most pilots do and you are dead meat. The whole problem can be traced back to the way a young sprog pilot used to be trained. Because of the nature of the operation, small package air cargo with older airplanes, most training is to spend Monday reading the AFM, flight training on Tuesday and check ride on Wednsday and on line Thursday. Fortunatly, the company I worked for before retirement spent a lot of time and effort training pilots and most found the airplane to be a demanding airplane to fly properly but a safe airplane. But then again the same can be said of most high performance airplanes.

[Liquid Charlie]

Not too many aircraft but those fuking simulators ...... arrrrrgggggggg -- they were always creating sweat --

[Gene Hasenfus]

One might suppose that the CADORs
database would be the repository of
this kind of information.

Has anyone ever done a report generation
from it, based on aircraft type? Would
be interesting to know which ones lead
the accident parade.

[Old Dog Flying]

One might suppose that the CADORs
database would be the repository of
this kind of information.

Has anyone ever done a report generation
from it, based on aircraft type? Would
be interesting to know which ones lead
the accident parade.

That would be the J-3 Cub...but it does it more slowly

[cgzro]

Seriously the J3 ? its a lovely easy to fly little plane?