Flight Modeling vs. Flight Handling.

[louisv]

For what it's worth, a long time ago I was taking flying lessons on Piper Cherokees. There were half a dozen of those and I flew all of them.

While the big numbers are very certainly similar, the feel was different. They each had their own personalities: sitting higher or lower, tightness in the controls, etc...

So there is indeed a lot of subjective variables here...