Piper Arrow - A Great Transition to Complex Flying

[@bernardanderson3758]

Wow ,,,Dakota you have made a difference In coming aboard Flying Doodles and the best part you got to love it in Aviation

[@DXB711]

Can't fake knowledge, experience and a love for what you're doing. Dakota certainly has all three when it comes to flying. Amazing!!! Thanks!

[@vincentcesco]

Dakota is great on Flying Doodles, keep coming with grate content!

[@robbiedejong4319]

Another perfect delivery Dakota. Well done. Flying Doodles all the way.

[@vhayden2057]

Hi Dakota...Your doing great with this channel. Keep it up young Lady..I watch this every episode.Good Luck .....

[@kennethainley5254]

Good job,Dakota. Keep the videos coming.

[@rudiekeyser2495]

Hi!! Dekota missing you crazy on sailing Doodles. Have a good one and keep safe.❤👌🇺🇲 Cheers Cape town 🇿🇦 👌

[@johnmccormick175]

Thanks Dakota and Chris,great video and always great to see you Dakota such an awesome lady. Excellent photography makes one feel like they are in the plane --love it!

[@cliffroach08]

Nice to see your Flying Doodles blogs. Keep up the good work. Would be nice to see you in an event type vlog 😂❤

[@mikeh720]

Excellent video Dakota! Nice to hear the comfort and confidence in your delivery.

[@richb313]

Thanks for the demo of this aircraft.

[@alanpress]

100K subs congrats!

[@TheClassicQ]

Excellent vid

[@billjones6106]

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

[@robertpowell2746]

Love seeing you Dakota, Just wish we could see your back on the boat. You are such a fantastic lady!❤😊

[@wayneelliott2462]

I had a Arrow 2 and have to be honest I was never a fan personally, ended up with a Trinidad TB21 GTS, I think I now have the most roomiest most capable cross country 4 seat IFR tourer in the business, love this channel though and learning other pilots thoughts!.

[@kristensorensen2219]

Most roomy or roomiest; but not both! 🦃

[@wayneelliott2462]

Why not, when manufactures claim that their offering is in the top ten roomiest and that there is one clear leader in that category why is it an issue to phrase it as I have? I ask because I am very keen to understand in case I have overreached with the metaphors.@@kristensorensen2219

[@thefamilythatfliestogether]

Did my commercial training in the Piper Arrow. It was a great plane for the commercial maneuvers with a ton of good good checklists / procedures to get the maneuvers right. The only thing I didn't like about the Arrow was the difficulty in "hot starts". Granted it might have been my inexperience with fuel injected engines at the time but I didn't have this problem with the other fuel injected airplanes I've flown since. Thanks for another great video.

[@mikereed7152]

Dakota you are doing an awesome job with Flying Doodles. Great work ❤😊

[@michaelburke9153]

Thank you again Dakota. Nice video. 🙂

[@thomasbranic]

Great job, Dakota! Great video! Love the Pipers!

[@stephenreese5921]

An F-16 pilot told me one day that he won’t fly if he is ever hungry or pissed off. For me three strikes and I’m out means now I’m pissed off. I never fly hungry because that would distract me because I’d always be thinking about food.

[@224valk4]

My flight surgeon I'd get my medical from, said never did autopsy on a pilot that had food in his stomach!! Never flew empty, just not spicy!

[@jamesmahoney2241]

Dakota really seems as if she is in her element! I am happy for her.

[@randyporter3491]

Another great video Dakota ! A big thanks to Chris for the ride and interesting info.

[@jonathanscott550]

Dakota another awesome video thanks for sharing. This Piper seems like a very fun and safe aircraft to fly. Happy New Years

[@rayspeers11]

Cool left arm tattoo!

[@ChrisBellamy-tk2xf]

Thanks. It's for my dad and grandfather. Dad flew f4 phantoms and grandpa flew p51s

[@paratyshow]

👍✅ Tks for another great video Dakota but we are really upset about the paint job on the Bonanza .......... 🤣 Congrats on 100K subs!

[@kristensorensen2219]

I like the Cardinal RG better. The view is better and a place to get out of the rain too. Got to bring a new one from the factory in Wichita to TTD. In the mid 70s the fly away price was under $100k!!

[@want2bsailing804]

Great video to Dakota and Chris. cheers to you both . 🍻🍻. I live about 20 minutes from that race track and do a lot of fishing in Grandbury lake . Awesome video . 👍

[@tomdavis1694]

Best step up complex aircraft. Flew one for several years that had STOL kit, fun.

[@zappatx]

I used to race at Motorsports Ranch when Merv Stauffer was around. Merv was also a programmer for the FAA's Ft. Worth Center going back to the 80's. Gave me a tour of it.. We called Grandbury "Grandma-berry".

[@DmMass-m7n]

Good episode Dakota. You are doing a great job for the channel. Would love now to see you go to the racetrack after hearing his story for a tour and see what they do. See ya drive a race car 🤔🤔

[@walterweigert9840]

Hi Dakota, greetings from Argentina. First of all, I hope you and your family and friends had a nice New Year eve and I also wish you a pleasentfull 2024. If you, by the time you (hopefully) read this comment still are in Texas, I´d like to suggest you to contact an American/Mexican pilot and flight instructor called Erasmo "Eddie" Malacara who runs a flight scholl down in the Edimburgh/McAllen region called Eddie Aviation Services. One of his clients/students reasently gave him for FREE a Bellanca, a rare single engine complex aircraft. I´m a long time subscriber to his channel and I´d love to see him interviewed by either you or Bobby with his new airplane. I made the same suggestion to Christy and Dan from "Taking Off" In the Hangar, but it didn´t work out. I have to say: I enjoy much more this series when you are the host than when Bobby did; IDK, both of you are pilots, however it feels you have more "empathy" with the interviewee. I wish you the best ahead. Cheers from NE Patagonia, Argentina. (a beautifull place). BTW: I learned to fly in a similar platform than the Arrow (an Archer) 42 years ago for whatever that matters.

[@skyepilotte11]

Great flight Dakota...very nice Arrow...

[@TerryNew62]

Always great watching you Dakota. 👍🇦🇺

[@robertbcope]

Nice, a fellow performance driving instructor. Many fun laps at MSRC, thought it's been a while.

[@bigrich2980]

I spent a lot of time at my Grandparent's lake house in Granbury when I was a kid. Looking forward to landing a plane there in the near future.

[@woofersd2383]

Maybe a Colab with Flying with Kay. Very talented and Smart Young Lady.

[@garyag45]

I have 150 plus hours in the Arrow II, absolutely love that aircraft. 🙏👍🦅😎🇺🇸

[@cessnaace]

My youngest brother co-owns a 1949 Ryan Navion A, which has a 205hp Continental E-185-9 engine. A great complex transition airplane. The Navion B used a more powerful 260hp Lycoming GO-435-C2 engine. The Models D, E, F, and G used Continentals producing 240, 250, and 260hp. The Model H was a Model G with a 285hp Continental IO-520B engine. Multiple companies over the years then began producing Twin Engine Navions; Comair Twin Navion, manufactured by Riley (and then later Temco), D-16 Bi-Navion with two 150hp Lycoming O-320 engines and strengthened wings, and eventually the Temco D-16A Navion with strengthened wings, two 170hp Lycoming O-340-A1A engines, nacelle tanks and 20 gallon each tip tanks. Please fly in one of those.

[@terrywhite2578]

Seeing light around the door was a surprise

[@justincaraway2116]

The Cardinal is a direct competitor to the Arrow and WAY better IMO. Larger cabin, faster , same tail as a Cherokee - and a strutless high wing where you can see into your turns!

[@FlyingNDriving]

Both planes wings fall off too!!!

[@lymanhoward4844]

Dakota, great job!

[@Dozer04r1]

Hey I live in Granbury! I know that airport. It’s about three miles from the house.

[@jaytroxel3495]

Nice job Dakota! Don't know what some of those acronyms are for the instrumentation..but every plane is different. I'm sure there are abbreviations for everything. Fly safe!

[@Sturzi]

Now I am curious how that paint scheme of the Bonanza looks like 🙂

[@paratyshow]

👍✅ Yea Dakota I'm calling foul on that one, we your loyal and loving fans want to see the paint scheme if you're gonna talk about it 🤣

[@brianhd1485]

Great video 😊

[@whitevanman8703]

Could not help noticing the lovely Maserati over his left shoulder at 2:49

[@ChrisBellamy-tk2xf]

Good eyes. That's my daily. I've put over 100k miles on it and love everything but the maintenance

[@charlesrhoades3106]

Good job!

[@bradgoodbread7976]

I have the same Plane, 1974 Arrow II with Factory Piper-Aire. I LOVE IT! N323BG

[@jimnasium3346]

Really enjoyable vids. Was there a reason you didn't take controls for a bit? 😎

[@hangfire6368]

You are good at this Dakota. 250k in 2024

[@jamesdrew6978]

Sorry to say that the Piper Arrow III is no longer in production. The Archer (or Archer types (fixed gear)) are in production but according to the lead sales person at Piper they are not going to produce the Arrow because of the change in the regulations pertaining to how pilots can get their complex endorsements using an airplane equipped with a qualifying glass cockpit. So the retractable time is no longer needed for complex endorsements. 😢

[@logan9684]

You wouldn't be able to get your complex endorsement using a TAA aircraft. You can use TAA aircraft time toward the 10 hours needed for your commercial license rather than using a complex aircraft. Which a lot of flight schools usually do due to insurance on complex aircraft. But yeah, there is not much of a market for these trainer complex aircraft anymore due to flight schools not needing them and insurance being very expensive on them for low-time pilots.

[@jamesdrew6978]

@@logan9684 Rodger that! You gave a much better explanation. Very spot on. Same effect, Piper isn’t building Arrows because they aren’t needed for the commercial rating due to the use of TAA aircraft fulfilling the requirements. 🤷‍♂️

[@DmMass-m7n]

I do realize this is Flying Doodles btw

[@kmg501]

That automatic backup system for landing gear drop is interesting. What if you need to make a emergency controlled crash landing into a field and deliberately want to land on the belly to minimize the likelihood of flopping over forward?

[@jbw9999]

It has a switch that can be set to disable it. Many Arrows have it permanently disabled now. I would do that myself if I owned one.

[@BigMike10960]

Is A/C standard equipment or was it added?

[@ChrisBellamy-tk2xf]

A/C was factory installed

[@zz3709]

Wait what? Piper is still making Arrow III's today? A few months ago I did the factory tour and absolutely no mention of Arrows.

[@woofersd2383]

Would love to see you Fly Dakota. Your trip, Your route, Your Take off, Your Landing. Who knows, maybe Keywest and meet up with Bobby and Amanda.

[@johnpaulthessen9402]

I cruise my arrow at 2400 rpm and 21 inches. Are those your settings?

[@ChrisBellamy-tk2xf]

Usually 24/24. Depends on the altitude. I usually cruise between 7k and 10k

[@klif_n]

I'd really like a plane like that except for the fact that I don't fit well in Pipers. At 6'5" I just don't have the headroom. I guess I wouldn't have made a good fighter pilot :)

[@homeofinventions]

Got to figure how to do a video per week that isn't necessarily in a plane. Will help you grow.

[@codybrooks2696]

Anybody else curious about the paint scheme of the Bonanza?

[@copernicus633]

Never ignore the old man in the black suit sitting behind you.

[@DanFrederiksen]

All the sheets and rivets just feel like so many failure points compared to a composite that seems like one piece.

[@rileywags]

The arrow is not still being made

[@Jcap644]

Wish you were dressed like you were in sailing doodles😉

[@saputramaulana7731]

👍🏼👍🏻😌☺😊

[@FlyingNDriving]

4 adults in a arrow, maybe for a $100 hamburger. Bet the useful load is like 880

[@FlyingNDriving]

6:50 this guy needs to shut his mouth. Mooney's way faster (20kts+) and has higher useful load than the arrow. Fuselage is the same width and there's more rear legroom in a Mooney than the Cherokees, plus rear seats recline. I bet he's never been in a Mooney before just regurgitating old wives tales.