Originally Posted by HarryC

The R2160 is my favourite light plane, I have many happy hours doing aerobatics or flying over to France in it. I have even more hours in the R2112A but the extra power of the 160 transforms it. The Robins are lovely to fly, it's such a pity that most PPLs have only flown Pipers or Cessnas and have never known what it is like to fly a plane with such control response or view from the cockpit. Many years ago I was asked if I would take a chap up for a flight for his 80th birthday, it turned out he had flown Hurricanes in the Battle of Britain, he was so keen to handle a plane again, he gave the stick a little stir and exclaimed how responsive it was.