What Was Your First Complex Airplane Flown?

[User546]

In honor of MiniTour's first flight today in a complex aircraft, what was the first complex and/or high performance airplane you flew?

Mine was the mighty Cessna 182RG.

 

[MTpilot]

Comanche 250

Great airplane!

 

[Superpilot92]

Mooney M-20s, Awesome airplane. It was a 2001 model so it had all the luxuries and the Go fast goodies. The flight school had choice of mooney or C-172RG.

 

[User546]

The flight school had choice of mooney or C-172RG.

Good choice!

 

[wmuflyguy]

M-20R...all the goodies on it (Radar Altimter, EHSI, StrikeFinder, some other junk)

 

[Vladimir Lenin]

beat up sierra

 

[Flechas]

Monney M20J, very old but flies great, then the Comanche PA24-250, now that's an awesome plane!

 

[Kream926]

b727

j/k i had no choice but the mighty cutlass

 

[Immelman]

Aside from riding around in friends' Twin Commanche & Cessna 320... Turbo Arrow IV was the first I was PIC in.... The Turbo IV was actually a very nice airplane, compared to the earlier non-turbo'd arrows. Did my CPL in a cutlass.

 

[OrcasC180]

My first complex PIC was in a beat up old Arrow. On my second flight in it, we had a gear indicator failure (turned out to be a failed microswitch on the left main gear) that gave me a good first-hand experience using the emergency gear checklist. The gutless Cutlass that I'm flying now for my commercial training is cherry compared to that old Arrow.