what do you think of this 337 for sale?

phlgsse · #1 11-09-20, 08:58 PM

Oh and I haven't regularly flown a multi since about 2000. I flew a 310 once this summer. Lol

mshac · #2 11-09-20, 09:11 PM

The Skymaster is like flying a single with two engines. If you can get over the awe factor of having six levers in your hands, you'll soon realize it responds like a big single engine. The pitch is heavy, and the aircraft is very stable. Lose an engine, lose some airspeed. Feather the inop engine, and continue your flight. In a Skymaster, an engine-out is not an "emergency", its an inconvenience.

mshac · #3 11-09-20, 09:32 PM

The panel is state of the art - for 1985. It does have a modern Garmin transponder, but that's about it for anything on the plane made after 1990.

phlgsse · #4 11-09-20, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by mshac

The panel is state of the art - for 1985. It does have a modern Garmin transponder, but that's about it for anything on the plane made after 1990.

Yep. And those collins radios are junk, imo.
The bright side is I just don't fly ifr, so thank God it's got deice boots. In hawaii.

mshac · #5 11-11-20, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by phlgsse

Yep. And those collins radios are junk, imo.
The bright side is I just don't fly ifr, so thank God it's got deice boots. In hawaii.

Hey at least the owner paid good money for all those aircraft canopy and prop covers! That's over a $1000 worth of merch right there!

The pics from 2007 show a Magellan 5000 GPS at the top of the stack. Its obviously been removed (no great loss), but that means you should have plenty of room to add a panel mount GPS down the road, if needed. Or lose the Collins nav coms and drop in a GTN750.

EDIT: I just noticed no autopilot installed. That will help your useful load, but hurts resale value. I'd be leary of putting too much $$$ in the panel, when the engines are high-time, and there's not an autopilot. The pool of potential buyers starts to become limited. If you plan to stay VFR, I'd probably fly it exactly as-is, and use a good portable ADS-B In solution along with a quality tablet EFB like Foreflight, Wing-X, Pilot, or Avare (for the cheapos amongst us - its 100% free).

I flew a Cessna 150J all over the continental US with a flybuddy GPS (bearing, distance & groundspeed only) and an KX170B. I shot ILS and VOR approaches with ease. I filed IFR most of the time just for the experience, and this was with no moving map (except the paper one in my lap thats trying to blow out the window - LOL). So you should be golden with a good tablet based GPS.

phlgsse · #6 11-11-20, 01:35 PM

I wondered about the magellan, in the closeup pics, below the stack, there is a gps/nav toggle switch. Guess that's a remnant for that.

For the flying I do here I can get by with an ipad just fine. And at the 4k a year they want for insurance I can't afford a gtn ��

I noticed the covers were nice too. Good thing because hangars are $800 a month here. It'll have to live outside.

mshac · #7 11-11-20, 01:51 PM

One last item, I would leave the boots on it, filed under "You never know". Do maintain them, or they will rot like an old tire. There are some very expensive products out there ($100/bottle

) for maintaining boots, but once a multimillionaire whose has owned over 80 planes showed me how he treats his boots with a $5 bottle of floor polish (after cleaning them first of course).