The International Cessna 170 Association

Brian, thank you- another excellent weather site- Thanks very much guys- I'll start using these sites and when I get used to them, cancel Trade-A-Plane weather. It's a nice resource but these are as good, and at no cost-. All the info of course comes from the government, it's all in how it's present...

George, are you sure of that 24 psi ? That seems awfully low. I use 40 psi as it makes the airplane easier to push out of my T-hangar. And 50 in the tailwheel.
Rudy

Craig, thanks- that last one is really nice ! No ads, no cost, very graphical-what more could you ask for ?
Rudy

Remember the DC-2 1/2 ? CAT in China had one, with a DC-3 wing on one side and DC-2 on the other. Think they had a field approval ?
Rudy

Guys, what is your favorite weather information source ? I use Trade-A-Plane Weather because they provide the information in a very user-friendly format- plain English reports and forecasts for the entire USA, animated radar and satellite images and readable synoptic charts. None of the cryptic unde...

Maybe I should have said "springy". My wheel landings rarely bounce- they are tail-low and very much like three pointers, except that the tail wheel doesn't touch the runway until later. I don't "drive"it on. And as Dave said, the approach and touch-down speeds are low-. The gear...

I meant buy at least the three shims sold by Cessna-
Rudy

PS- and of course buy at least one of the three shims that Cessna makes.
There might be a bit of trial and error to get the alignment just right.

You're right in doing this work yourself. It's not difficult. Modern mechanics have no clue about our conventional landing gear.
Rudy

David, listen to Russ- he's 100% right on this subject. I was going to tell you the same thing. When checking the alignment the book says to place the weheels on greased plates. This is messy - several layers of newspaper work quite well to allow the wheels to find their natural toe-in or out. There...

Whether an airplane makes nice wheel landings depends not only on the "bounciness" of the gear but even more on the gear geometry. The farther back the landing gear is, the easier it is to wheel land. You'll almost never see a Pitts wheeled on- the gear is quite far forward and wheel landi...

The AOPA Online Airport Directory http://www.aopa.org/members/airports/#USTProcs is a nice resource. You can download and print the latest approach charts, STARS, airport diagrams etc. The AOPA Real Time Flight Planner is also useful. I think these are for AOPA members, which I guess most of us are?...

George, that's even scarier than the tree-
Rudy

Thanks, Bruce, David- makes me feel better-
Rudy

It was the summer of 1956 and I was on summer break from Georgia Tech, crop-dusting in northern Louisiana. It was the first flight of the day and as dawn broke I opened the throttle of my cut-back J-3, taking off to kill some boll weevils. I had dusted that field several times before and began makin...

Thanks, Craig. I was hoping someone would say something like that-
Rudy