Keith Monteith

I fly my Cardinal RG, largely only solo since the COVID pandemic started.  However, I also fly CAP C-182's and C-172's for mission crew training, and we follow the CAP guidance on flying with masks and sanitizing the aircraft before and after flights.  As the overall US rates of positive COVID tests have gone up dramatically in the last month, has there been any increase in getting a positive COVID test result that can be traced to sharing a cockpit with another pilot?  A CFI I know who teaches at a university flight school has seen a large number of his students and some of the other CFI's having to quarantine due to COVID exposure, although not specifically attributed to their time in the cockpit.  I was wondering if others had seen positive COVID diagnoses that could be attributed to sharing cockpits with others.

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I fly my Cardinal RG, largely only solo since the COVID pandemic started.  However, I also fly CAP C-182's and C-172's for mission crew training, and we follow the CAP guidance on flying with masks and sanitizing the aircraft before and after flights.  As the overall US rates of positive COVID tests have gone up dramatically in the last month, has there been any increase in getting a positive COVID test result that can be traced to sharing a cockpit with another pilot?  A CFI ... more

It has been over 25 years since I have been in a GA plane except for starting my flight review (after 25 year lapse) in a Cessna.  I am considering purchasing a plane and am trying to do a little front end research. My question is what is it like to get into and out of a Piper Cherokee type.  I flew both 172's and Piper 180's 25 years ago but was a lot more nimble then. Right now, at 76 I am out of shape and stiff. My wife has physical difficulties and finds it difficult to get up out of a recliner.  None of the flight services around have any low wings, all Cessna's.  So, it isn't practical for me to just go to one and climb in.
To those who might be more "experienced", how difficult do you find it to get in and out of a low wing?

Also, on a plane such as the Cherokee 6 that has space between the pilot and passenger seat, it is practical to move from the passenger seat to the rear of the plane through that space?  Doesn't seem to me like an option.

Any thoughts and insight?

Thanks

 

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It has been over 25 years since I have been in a GA plane except for starting my flight review (after 25 year lapse) in a Cessna.  I am considering purchasing a plane and am trying to do a little front end research. My question is what is it like to get into and out of a Piper Cherokee type.  I flew both 172's and Piper 180's 25 years ago but was a lot more nimble then. Right now, at 76 I am out of shape and stiff. My wife has physical difficulties and finds it difficult to get up out of a ... more