Originally Posted by
Planespotta
Well, not really. It's just that when you have the third flap setting locked in, you can still manually pull back and hold the flaps a little further back (because they are mechanical). I distinctly remember reading somewhere that doing so added about 15 degrees of flaps . . . dunno if it was in a POH/IM.
It wouldn't be in the manual, because it's not an "approved" flap position, otherwise it'd have the detent for it. So 40-degree's is technically it.
As far as Piper vs. Cessna, it's preference. Cessna pumped out(and still does) produce more planes vs. pipers. So just by numbers alone it's that way. I love both, each for different reasons.
When you move up past trainers, Piper wins with the Malibu Mirage/Matrix IMO, but I'm partial because my company sells them.(10nm/gal efficiency at 70% isn't bad though is it)