As in life it is in the quirks that allow certain subjects to stand above, and rather than be lost in the hoards and the aircraft shouts of the refrain "If it works then why change it". but it is those challenges that keep the machine also in the front of your mind than rather allowing it to just blend in with every other medium twin of your choice, and there is now a huge range in X-Plane of some very good twins to choose from. It is no fable if you are a regular visitor to these reviews that I like the Carenado PA-31 Navajo, I have lauded it's charms mythically several times even if it does have a few foibles in that the PA-31 it is hard to trim and to keep trimmed at speed, and at low speeds it can be a bit of a handful. So all round the Cheyenne is far more powerful and slightly bigger aircraft than it's brethren brothers, but in context it still looks very similar to the family lineage. The Cheyenne however is of the same construction and layout, but has the far more powerful 620-shp (462-kW) Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-28 turboprop engines compared to the Lycoming TIO-540-A 310 shp (231 kW) on the Navajo, and there is also a slight difference in length with the Cheyenne longer at 34 ft 8 in (10.57 m) to the Navajo's 32 ft 7½ in (9.94 m) in the Cheyenne ll configuration and the wingspan is 42 ft 8¼ in (13.01 m) for the Cheyenne to the slightly smaller 40 ft 8 in (12.40 m) of the Navajo. Both the Navajo and Chieftain were air-cooled six-cylinder horizontally opposed piston-engined machines.
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The Cheyenne is part of the Piper "Indian" Series including the Navajo and the Chieftain of a twin-engined prop long range 6 to 7 seater aircraft. Aircraft Review : PA-31T Cheyenne ll XP11 by Carenado