Time to Fly Again, Taildragger style!

On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 15:23:07 -0400, "W P Dixon"
wrote:

Well here in just a few hours I will make my trip to Ohio to fly the
Champ again. 6.2 hours in it now and hope to add alot to it Sunday and
Monday. Drive at least most the trip tonight

Good grief, that's devotion! Isn't there anything closer to home?
Maybe you should consider taking a week's vacation somewhere you can
get a block of flight time.

Last weekend I went flying in a friends Cub here in Tennessee. I was in
the front seat and I have to say I was not comfie in the front of the Cub.

I wouldn't know! I have over 300 hours in J-3s/L-4s and I've never
been in the front seat. (I have flown a PA-18 from the front. It was
fine.)

My instructors never complained, and there's a guy at Hampton Airfield
who regularly rents the Cubs (apart from me, about the only one with a
serious habit--all the others are students, taildragger transitions,
and instuctors), and he sits in front if he can get a passenger.

Really cramped, and I'm not that tall! It was a definite difference in
rudder control being so tight in the front seat , I would imagine it is just
one of those things you'd get used to. When I get checked out and solo the

Possibly. Could be also that the J-3 you were in is different in some
respect.

have a feel of how a Cub will fly and handle. I'd chose a Champ
myself...better vision, more leg room

Two lads from Hampton Airfield flew a Champ cross-country (and back
in partial emulation of Rinker Buck's wonderful "Flight of Passage".
When they mentioned that Buck inspired them to make the flight, I
wondered if they'd noticed the line in his book where his brother
comes back from a flight in thelesser plane and says to Rink: "Champs
suck."


-- all the best, Dan Ford

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