The International Cessna 170 Association

I don't doubt the benefits of VGs as I've seen the night and day difference in stall behavior in my Dad's old Hyperbipe.

Also, the airlines wouldn't be sticking them all over the place if they didn't do any good.

I just can't imagine spending $1,400 to make my plane handle better in slow flight. The thing is already a wonderful slow flying airplane and I can already have it down and stopped in 1/3rd of the shortest runway I fly into (Freeway is 2400 feet)

I'm also a little scared of trying them out and realizing what I'm missing out on

bagarre wrote:I don't doubt the benefits of VGs as I've seen the night and day difference in stall behavior in my Dad's old Hyperbipe.

Also, the airlines wouldn't be sticking them all over the place if they didn't do any good.

I just can't imagine spending $1,400 to make my plane handle better in slow flight. The thing is already a wonderful slow flying airplane and I can already have it down and stopped in 1/3rd of the shortest runway I fly into (Freeway is 2400 feet)

I'm also a little scared of trying them out and realizing what I'm missing out on

The airlines don't "stick" 'em all over the place. The vortex generators on airliners are usually for a slightly different purpose...they're a sort of "band aid" to correct problems... that of keeping boundary layer energized at high speed.

I don't care if anyone wants to do it to their own airplane 'cause they like the improved aileron control at slow speed... I just don't find the 170 needs to go any slower than it already does, or land any shorter than it already does. (It might allow it to take off in places it gets into that it otherwise might not get out of.... I admit that. But when it's that close.... I don't want or need that sort of challenge in my own type of flying is all.)

bagarre wrote: Also, the airlines wouldn't be sticking them all over the place if they didn't do any good.

In case it wasn't incredibly obvious, that was a tongue in cheek comment.
I don't actually believe the airliners are randomly sticking VGs all over the place because they have nothing better to do.

Hey somebody might be trying to make a living over here !

About time to start talkin Mogas ,MMO, and a few other things again. Some swear by it others swear at it .