More 'Backcountry 182' STOL/SOFT ops.

[IBob]

Garfly, thanks for the post.

I really enjoy this guy's stuff...and it always leaves me with plenty to think about.

[Garfly]

That's all you've got, Flighty?

 

Edited May 26, 2022 by Garfly

[Garfly]

Yep, that's all.

[Student Pilot]

3 hours ago, Garfly said:

 

Geez, Flighty, even when you come across a recreational flyer with first class stick and rudder skills (and an exemplary safety message) you still manage to pull a negative message from it.  You're never happy, are ya!

 

Truth be told, I'd fly to any strip with that BC182 bloke, in a heartbeat, given the chance.  (Or, for that matter, with any experienced, right minded, PNG pilot on their daily mountain milk run.)   BC182 sums it up in the vid:  "Flying in the mountains can be very rewarding but you've got to do your homework and you've got to get the training." 

 

Done right, there's no reason we can't seek that kind of reward in OZ - without, necessarily, strewing bodies everywhere.

 

(Anyway, at our age, we're not even safe in a simulator.   ;- )

I'm sure I could talk you into a fly in a 150 Captain Gazza......😜

[Garfly]

Of course, SP, I'll even fly with students if it's free.

Have you got a C150, now?

(They're what they call the poor man's Skyranger, no?)

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 26, 2022 by Garfly

[Student Pilot]

Unfortunately no aircraft nor the likelihood of being able to afford any 😕I'll  just have to learn flying somebody else's 😁

[Garfly]

You'll just have to learn on the job, then.

 

It can't be that hard.   

 

 

[Flightrite]

Too easy😂

[Student Pilot]

Sabre?
 

[Garfly]

Smart watch?

[IBob]

Kenwood stereo, C1980

[IBob]

You think I'm kidding? The More Is Better Kenwood 9000......pity the poor audiophile trying to work this thing with just one pair of hands...........

 

[IBob]

But, hey....thread drift.......(

Hangin' out for more Backcountry 182 stuff here.

[Flightrite]

Ah poor Bob, feeling a little left out😉😂😂

[Garfly]

 

 

 

[Flightrite]

Thank Christ we don’t experience this down under! Pre heating an engine and having snow on the ground means stay inside where it’s warm👍
This guy has great vids but I can’t stand his voice!

[sfGnome]

Pretty spectacular scenery, but, geez, you wouldn’t want the engine to go quiet on you… 😳

[Garfly]

 

 

 

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[Student Pilot]

Got bored after 37 seconds. I'm sure he has a very plausible theory if I had watched it long enough. With my limited brain capacity and boredom threshold I can't watch it vey long.
How does he define final? His approach in the first 37 seconds he turns onto his landing heading just before he touches down.

When I'm landing short on a bush strip I fly a curved approach straightening up just before flaring. 

[Garfly]

For the opposite approach jump to 7:47

[Flightrite]

Whilst I find the guys vids interesting/entertaining I wonder how many of us really fly like he does here in Oz in say a C182 or C170? Landing on gravel bars, weaving in and out of trees in high risk environments all the time with the stall warning activating? I’d say none to very few!  We simply don’t have the locations like they do over there, here is very restrictive, people would whinge, the authorities would crucify us for operation in and out of some gravel bar on the Murray River for instance! Insurance Co’ would be thrilled m sure😉

[Garfly]

 

Heck, we have our own Hornet STOL for that:

 

https://aircraftkits.com.au/blank-2/

 

(Easily bored? Go straight to 4:06  ;- )

 

 

 

 

And across the ditch even Skyrangers get into it:

 

 

 

[Garfly]

Speaking of Hornets; a recent test flight video of a Tassie one:

 

 

A bunch of really interesting (home) build videos of it here:

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-UJmXg0f6MCu19kFnAKLAQ