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JWilsonphoto wrote:
Good Morning/Afternoon Jan Arie,
Thanks! Funny, this aircraft flies much differently compared to mine, you sit higher, the stick is s-curved and shorter and there are no steam gauges it's all glass. Even with 4,000 hours of conventional gear time I kind of feel like I'm walking on eggshells in a new airplane. They are installing the Catto prop on 7PC while it's at the factory and if this aircraft is any indication, the Cub becomes a VTOL utilizing that prop. Chandler, who everyone knows is a quiet soul, was gobsmacked on takeoff yesterday. I lined up on the beginning of the numbers, advanced the throttle and we levitated before we ran by the far end of the numbers. Same 0-200 Continental as mine so it has to be the Catto prop. I always liked the nostalgic look of my wood prop but it's about as efficient as a 2x6 so I felt that it was time for a change. Bryan Martin and I used to play when things were slow in the tower at KTKI, and I'd see how short a distance I could take off and land, Bryan would watch from the tower and gauge how many feet were involved. Full fuel, no wind with just me on board, I think my personal best was a take off roll of 175', just shy of the distance between runway lights. I'm going to go out late this afternoon and see what this new Cub actually does, but based on yesterday I have to believe it will be less than 30'. That was full fuel, Chandler and me and a 4 knot quartering wind off the nose.
This aircraft is equipped with a Garmin system horizontal situation indicator/horizon/HSI with command bars and the whole nine yards. Altitude and airspeed are shown on vertical rolling tapes to the left and right of the attitude indicator all of which takes a little time to acclimate to. The transponder and comm are 2 1/4" round indicators with a couple of push buttons. When we entered KTKI airspace yesterday the controller was handling about a dozen aircraft so he asked me to "ident", that sent me scrambling because I had no idea how to do that on this system. A quick "standby 1" from me and I found the ident button and all was well but it did get my attention. I'm going to spend a little time with the system this afternoon before I fly. The panel iOS very clean, absent all the gauges and the Garmin gear is pretty intuitive, although a digital, or even a steam gauge airspeed indicator is of little use in the final moments prior to kissing the runway, that is all "seat cushion and stick" feedback. I had a good friend who I took in my Cub when it was new and he decided he had to have one. I checked him out in mine while they built his. Dick was a Piper Meridian pilot, actually Meridian serial number 1. He was used to flying the Garmin glass in his Piper so he ordered a Dynon glass panel in his Cub. One day he asked if I would go shoot some landings with him in his Cub, he was frustrated because he was "flying the numbers" that I taught him to during the landing sequence, but he was floating with a few knots too much air speed, or running out of it and bouncing in. The problem was, he was watching those numbers on his Dynon airspeed tape and not feeling them in his seat cushion. We spent a half an hour in the pattern and I put a post it note over his airspeed indication, when we were done he was greasing it on. These guys that fly high and fast, all by the numbers, have a hard time acclimating to real flying again, seat of the pants stick and rudder, that's what I'm trying to teach Chandler and it will serve him well in anything he flies from here on out.
I'll take a couple of panel shots this afternoon so you can see how it's configured....Show more →
Ha Cool story so you see that old school flying ( No pun intended) is much more practical then al that digital stuff.
Even some of it will help a lot during flight, Ha says the one that fly's only on the PC did my first carrier landing this afternoon hoorah 
Talked to Gunny a couple of weeks ago he's doing some great stuff with his Bonanza and post's some great video's about that on youtube.
He had some air to air stuff idea's in mind and he thought about you, so maybe he will contact you
The new flightsim like FX is almost ready for release so maybe I will look in to that for flying some GA birds.
Have a great weekend..
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Mike B. liked it as well so given those two valued opinions, I'm going to stick with it for awhile more and see what happens.
