My family loved the Cherokee Six I used to fly. My daughter, the one most interested in aviation, sat up front with me, helping with radios and charts. My son, whose stomach was the most sensitive, sat in the middle row, near the center of gravity (CG), where turbulence had the least effect. My wife sat in the last row and watched a movie. Its useful load was large enough to carry a light sport airplane, although the logistics would have been difficult. Big piles of hand-me-downs for the nieces? Load 'em up! It was difficult to get it out of the published CG envelope. I hated it. Well, I didn't really hate it, because it was an airplane, and it's almost impossible to hate an airplane. But it took a lot of work to fly it. The outboard tanks at the end of each wing meant managing fuel took a lot of attention. They were so far from the CG that a small imbalance meant a strong wing-low tendency. My protocol involved switching tanks every 15 minutes until the tip tanks were empty.
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