Short Wing At A Super Cub Function

[RobertC]

Another great weekend in the Idaho backcountry.

Camping with the backcountry Tripacer at the Johnson Creek airstrip

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Flew to the Root Ranch inside the Frank Church Wilderness area. The ranch is accessed only by plane or trail. The strip has a fun approach, but is high, short, one way, and rough, but the breakfast is tremendous at the lodge.

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Leaving Root Ranch

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[Steve Pierce]

I saw those pictures Jay posted. What about ice cream, did you deliver them ice cream. Come on Bob, priorities.

[walt.buskey]

Great to see our little nose-draggers keeping up with the tail-wheelers!!

[doc]

I had intended to get up this weekend, but last minute work requirements Friday meant it was a no go. How was the weather Sunday, every thing I looked at made it sound like a stay in the tent kind of day?

Another great weekend in the Idaho backcountry.

Camping with the backcountry Tripacer at the Johnson Creek airstrip

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Flew to the Root Ranch inside the Frank Church Wilderness area. The ranch is accessed only by plane or trail. The strip has a fun approach, but is high, short, one way, and rough, but the breakfast is tremendous at the lodge.

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Leaving Root Ranch

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[doc]

The nose on an intact PA22 is one of the strongest made. There aren't many places that you "should" go which you "can't" go in one. I've been through a few of the nose wheel variants, before "graduating" (found a screaming deal on a Clipper, wanted one for years, made an offer I didn't expect to be accepted, it was) and have had nosewheels 22's all over the Church, Southern UT, Oregon & Washington, still to this day, I wouldn't hesitate to take a 22 about 80 % of the places I'd take a SuperCub & 90% of the places I'd go with my Clipper, that says a lot because I've not found much that I want to go to that I can't get my Clipper(it does have Sullivan tips, VG's & a 160HP engine, and still tips the scales at a RCH under 1k lb) into & back out of safely

Great to see our little nose-draggers keeping up with the tail-wheelers!!

[walt.buskey]

Before I bought my PA-22, I asked a fellow teacher (he had an Aeronca Chief) what the folks in his group had to say about the T-P. The usual: "Flies like a brick", "Flying milk stool", and "Doesn't do well on grass"...

When checking the plane out with the seller, I asked him about the flying off grass thing. He directed me over to a farm (we were in central PA); he took over and spiraled down to a hard-to-see grass strip next to a road and landed. Back-taxied, then said "Watch."

Granted, it was only the two of us (about 350 lbs) and partial fuel --though far from empty-- and no luggage, but we gained speed and easily lifted off that not-very-well-maintained (and seldom used) grass strip.

"Now look back," he says. "Wow," says, I, "we didn't use half that runway!" "We didn't use even a THIRD of it. Don't let anyone ever tell you these things won't work on grass!"

Needless to say, I was suitably impressed. That's when I learned that folks who denigrate the PA-22's performance... have probably never flown one.

Walt

[Don D]

Famous N3129Z competed at the Valdez STOL contest in May. Didn't beat the Cubs but combined takeoff and landing distance was less than 400 ft.

[Pilot-34]

Those Valdez airplanes are great, but their pilots never mention the argument that they have about strapping the wife kids onto the wing struts for the flight over….

GO RobertC !