-----Original Message-----
From: Robert M. Gary ]
Posted At: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 5:22 PM
Posted To: rec.aviation.owning
Conversation: 2nd airplane
Subject: 2nd airplane

On Aug 29, 12:13 pm, wrote:

....

As a current Mooney owner and former Aeronca and J-3 pilot I can
assure you that you cannot do Aeronca./J-3 type flying in a Mooney.
The problem is that the comfortable flying speed is so much higher
that you need to be higher off the ground and have less ability to
just play around. When you're going 2 or 3 times faster you cover more
ground and have more terrain, etc to worry about. In the J-3 flying at
300 feet over farms was no big deal because you were doing 50 mph.

-Robert

Exactly what I was thinking; it would be very difficult to get a Bo, or
Mooney, or even a 172 down and stopped in under 300' on grass like you
can with a Birddog or Cub or Airknocker. I didn't intentionally mean to
ponder only about high-wing aircraft in my original post, but now
realize I did. It seems to me that downward visibility would also be
important if I was just futzing around at 60 to 90 kts. Even the O-1 can
be made to sip fuel if you don't push it too hard. I really think it
just converts everything over 8 gph or so to nothing but noise anyway.