> It is good, Chuck. Although it takes a bit of learning to land.
To play on a David Letterman bit, "Will it float?"
For some reason, this looks like an aircraft that will settle into a
float once it hits ground effect.
That's the one thing I really hated about the Cessna 150 and 172 was
how it would float when you really didn't want it to. Not normally a
horrible problem, but our airport was SO tight and we always had
nasty, gusting and swirling crosswinds and a 25-foot wide sidewalk to
land on. (with the encroching grass, it was about 15 foot). With the
75-100 foot trees at the end of the runways, (about 2500 foot long, if
you are really generous, maybe 1700 if you are honest), floating was
not what you wanted. Takeoffs and landings at gross weight in the
summertime was NOT recommended.
The Cherokees, based on our field had other issues, but most of those
guys would drive the planes down onto the runway, bottoming out those
oleo struts. Our spring-gear (ours were old enough they didn't have
the tubular mains) would bounce you back up 20 foot in the air if you
tried the same thing.
One guy had a Beech Bonanza (V-tail), another had a Beech Buccuneer.
There used to be a couple of twins there (Aztec, 310), but for the
most part, it was small Cessnas and old tail-draggers. Everybody moved
to two neighboring airports when an ownership change of the airport
spelled a deathnell to it. Not sure I'd want to land ANYTHING there
now.
The airport was originally built and asphalt paved as a defence
department project. There was a gunnery training range several miles
away (Camp Claybanks) along the lake shore. Lots of DC3 type aircraft
used to fly in there. But the trees were much shorter in those days.
AG
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