That landing was fine, perhaps a shoot of power on the flare would of helped the bounce. Nevertheless Cubs can handle nearly 10 times the strength of that bounce.
@Rikki0 I haven't heard that saying in years. Thanks for the laughs and the freshening up of old memories. My old man has a '46 J3 that's a month older than him. We use to fly around San Diego in it when I was a teenager. Great memories. :)
Pretty reasonably landing. I have several hundred hours and a couple thousand landings in a Cub and I've definitely done worse. As for the kids saying you only flare in a trike, you need to go back to your flight simulator. You don't know squat about taildraggers and it shows.
A taildragger flares as well...that's why they three-point, so you're right on the money. I wish I had experience, but I only fly Flight Simulator, no thanks to rheumatoid arthritis. FS can be equally challenging in its own right, although it lacks two things: (1) Sensation of motion and (2) risk factor.
well I am a kid and my piper cub is brillant and is still in one piece. Yeah your right its a pretty good landing atempt especialy with cross wind. I have had about 5 hours of flying my dads plane and I can do nearly perfect landings its a nice trainer i would definately recomend as a first plane.
well, lol considering that a freind of mine was in that plane, (and he was the one to teach me), i'd have to say thats not to difficult for him to overcome... dagerous yes yes of coarse but unless there is a heavy wind, i'd like to doubt his failure.
He had trees & power lines to clear. His approach speed was appropriately slow with power for that type of situation. He cut power & side-slipped, a common technique in that type airplane and that situation. Realizing that his descent was a little too steep & slow, he added power and bounced it a little. A Cub's landing gear can handle much more abuse than that. His recovery was superb, showing that he knows how to fly a tailwheel airplane. Hope this informs you gamers a.k.a. expert pilots.
usually a plane which has 2 wheels in the front and a tail wheel should first land on its two wheels in the front...later on as the aircraft slows to a stop the tailwheel will follow
What that person did he tried landing a piper like a cessna 172...note to self remember not to land with your tail wheel first
I think you'll get some negative feedback on this comment, but I thank you for the post. Please look up "three-pointer" or "three point landing" and see that this would be the most logical type to select for this short strip and airplane type. In fact, you'll see the same plane make a perfect landing, using very little runway, in another of my vids. There are some larger (much larger) airframes that require a "wheel landing" that you refer to.
What do you mean? its takes like 2 feet to stop a cub. what happened was the guy was coming to land and he leveled out to early. Then he did something you only do in a tri-gear, he flared.
U flare in every type of plane regardless of the style of gear....even doing a wheel landing there is some flaring involved!!! Did they not teach you that in whatever flight sim game u have been playing that made u a bad-ass professional pilot?????? ass-bite
Huh? Dane, you need to read "The Compleat Taildragger". That airplane has been dropped in from higher than that without any issues--it has heavy duty bungees and safety cables and slightly oversize tires. Three point plonks are standard in a tailwheel.
Hey man...happens to the best of us pilots....if we didn't have some of those we would not have anything to talk about or learn from...looks like a tricky airport to get into anyway
Thanks, Phishyphunk, I think you got that right on the nose, including my exact thoughts at the time. It's a 1300 foot field, which is plenty long, but there are obstructions at both ends. I'm landing to the South, which has a monster willow tree and then the wires. Psychologically it is a tougher landing. Landing to the North is a piece of cake, just some normal trees that you can skim over and then slip on in.
he added two shots of power there, one right after the lines, and then one when he went to flare and went "oh shit no lift, lets add power" and by that time he had as we pilots call it "arrived" haha good save tho man
Actually, I mushed out on the VGs (power off) at about 15 feet in the air but caught it with power. Barely. When going slow with the VGs you have to keep in mind that the airplane will fly slower with power on than power off...good thing Cubs are tough.
It happens!
swampthing31 2 months ago
That landing was fine, perhaps a shoot of power on the flare would of helped the bounce. Nevertheless Cubs can handle nearly 10 times the strength of that bounce.
TheAviator789 6 months ago
The difference between a good landing and a great landing: A good landing you walk away from a great landing you get to use the plane again.....
Gitarmang 8 months ago
Looks ok to me. Cubbys are tough. Trees, power lines, short field......bring her in low and slow and plop her on. Well done!
lowflyingcessna 8 months ago
Actually, given the SHORT field, and the power line, I thought it took a hell of a lot of skill to pull it off.
I wouldn't have tried ti.
athenscap 9 months ago
ohhhh...
Savannahsens3 10 months ago
The Piper Cub is the safest plane in the world. It can just baaaarely kill you.
Rikki0 1 year ago 2
@Rikki0 I haven't heard that saying in years. Thanks for the laughs and the freshening up of old memories. My old man has a '46 J3 that's a month older than him. We use to fly around San Diego in it when I was a teenager. Great memories. :)
JustinStrife 1 year ago
thats a pretty sketchy approach haha
ritualghost 1 year ago
Not a bad landing at all!! Well recovered I'd say. Piper cubs....greatest airplane ever!!!
mertinsdonlin 1 year ago
well it is a cub and we all know what cubs do when they land even the best cub pilots still bounce em!
gunny556fly 1 year ago
thats called falling with style
JMoney5251 1 year ago
Landing over powerlines in someone's backyard? I'd say that was a great landing.
AdamJLemon 2 years ago 4
well considering the power lines right before the strip, and it didnt seem to long, id say a pretty good soft/short field landing
aviator147 2 years ago 3
Every land is just a controlled crash...
bildo0162 2 years ago 3
try doing that in IL-2.....
Nnexxxx 2 years ago
...In Flight Simulator.
SenorSpode 2 years ago
as they say.. any landing u can walk away from is a good landing
p3x197 2 years ago 11
@p3x197 Lol I'm glad airliner pilots don't use that saying :P
Amadman114 10 months ago
ooh!!!!
pilotjanmanpeterpan 2 years ago
so you can land this plane where ever you want?!?!nice
NSRacerMods 2 years ago
Too bad it wasn't a Storch.
dattomcat89 2 years ago
i thought that wasnt a so bad landing... was tough and to land it in that short space with the lines in the way and trees... not too bad :)
toggle90 2 years ago
at least he made it over the telephone lines and that tree and missed the building. Crazy looking approach from that camera angle.
ubermarklar 2 years ago
ouch that must of hurt your but
jeff10151989 2 years ago
Looks like a tough approach, the kind you would definitely have to slip, and try to get rid of your high rate of descent at the last minute.
hew44 2 years ago 2
lol, "OH!" What does that do?
gizmopossible 3 years ago
Nose high slip will kill you.
Practically stalled that machine in
mjok2004 3 years ago
Actually it won't.
citabrickr 3 years ago
Wasn't that a stall? He went so slow!
rcairpower 3 years ago
Pretty reasonably landing. I have several hundred hours and a couple thousand landings in a Cub and I've definitely done worse. As for the kids saying you only flare in a trike, you need to go back to your flight simulator. You don't know squat about taildraggers and it shows.
Jim--Cub Owner
wwiiabn 3 years ago
A taildragger flares as well...that's why they three-point, so you're right on the money. I wish I had experience, but I only fly Flight Simulator, no thanks to rheumatoid arthritis. FS can be equally challenging in its own right, although it lacks two things: (1) Sensation of motion and (2) risk factor.
SenorSpode 3 years ago 2
well I am a kid and my piper cub is brillant and is still in one piece. Yeah your right its a pretty good landing atempt especialy with cross wind. I have had about 5 hours of flying my dads plane and I can do nearly perfect landings its a nice trainer i would definately recomend as a first plane.
Tom--Cub owner
Aspire198 3 years ago
looks like my average landing, what was wrong with it!!?
:)
Dekka774623 3 years ago
ouch! Well, at least you didn't break anything. That's what counts
nearadyn 3 years ago
lol right by powerlines...
the1bigace 3 years ago
bury powerlines...not pilots
louswire 3 years ago
I said "oh" at the exact time he did lol
KylerHayes 3 years ago
I did that too! haha
JeffyMor 3 years ago
yep. lol
iflyc77 3 years ago
lol you always add power after a forward slip
Insaneduude 3 years ago
Well look every landing you walk away from is a goodone, everyone you can reuse the airplane is a greatone!! :)
computerworkshop 3 years ago
I think its funny at the end when guy who is filming goes "oh!" lol
ValhallaAwaitsU 3 years ago 3
well, lol considering that a freind of mine was in that plane, (and he was the one to teach me), i'd have to say thats not to difficult for him to overcome... dagerous yes yes of coarse but unless there is a heavy wind, i'd like to doubt his failure.
terrantry 3 years ago
Wasn't Tim in vid. Different -11. Though I agree with all your comments. He taught me as well.
nesincg 3 years ago
He had trees & power lines to clear. His approach speed was appropriately slow with power for that type of situation. He cut power & side-slipped, a common technique in that type airplane and that situation. Realizing that his descent was a little too steep & slow, he added power and bounced it a little. A Cub's landing gear can handle much more abuse than that. His recovery was superb, showing that he knows how to fly a tailwheel airplane. Hope this informs you gamers a.k.a. expert pilots.
stearman81n 3 years ago 19
Finally, a real pilot. Good comments.
nesincg 3 years ago 2
I agree
beep684 3 years ago
Ditto. I knew what he heck I was doing and it is no game...
jrussell4711 3 years ago
@stearman81n Was about to post something similar, thanks.
bravo45 9 months ago
Yeah looks like he had to kill the power to get it down, and then didn't give it enough before touching down.
edyken77 3 years ago
usually a plane which has 2 wheels in the front and a tail wheel should first land on its two wheels in the front...later on as the aircraft slows to a stop the tailwheel will follow
What that person did he tried landing a piper like a cessna 172...note to self remember not to land with your tail wheel first
aceflyer89 3 years ago
I think you'll get some negative feedback on this comment, but I thank you for the post. Please look up "three-pointer" or "three point landing" and see that this would be the most logical type to select for this short strip and airplane type. In fact, you'll see the same plane make a perfect landing, using very little runway, in another of my vids. There are some larger (much larger) airframes that require a "wheel landing" that you refer to.
nesincg 3 years ago
what was wrong with that landing? nothing broke or fell off the plane.
louswire 4 years ago
When you hit the ground that hard you could severely damage the landing gear. I thought I saw the tail wheel hit too.
danetrain0101 3 years ago
Doesn't the tailwheel always hit?
nesincg 3 years ago
It hit really hard and no it shouldn't hit like that. You rest the main gear on the ground then let the tail come down.
danetrain0101 3 years ago
Sorry, I don't agree with using wheel landings on short strips in a cub.
nesincg 3 years ago
What do you mean? its takes like 2 feet to stop a cub. what happened was the guy was coming to land and he leveled out to early. Then he did something you only do in a tri-gear, he flared.
danetrain0101 3 years ago
If you say so.
nesincg 3 years ago
U flare in every type of plane regardless of the style of gear....even doing a wheel landing there is some flaring involved!!! Did they not teach you that in whatever flight sim game u have been playing that made u a bad-ass professional pilot?????? ass-bite
tayloreasley 3 years ago
Takes a bit more than 2 feet mate.
agentfazexx 3 years ago
Huh? Dane, you need to read "The Compleat Taildragger". That airplane has been dropped in from higher than that without any issues--it has heavy duty bungees and safety cables and slightly oversize tires. Three point plonks are standard in a tailwheel.
jrussell4711 3 years ago
Hey man...happens to the best of us pilots....if we didn't have some of those we would not have anything to talk about or learn from...looks like a tricky airport to get into anyway
76275 4 years ago
hope he logged both of those landings,,,lol
1taildragger 4 years ago
Oh, its not bad. I've had worse in the J-3.
-Robert, CFII
RobertGary1 4 years ago
Thanks, Phishyphunk, I think you got that right on the nose, including my exact thoughts at the time. It's a 1300 foot field, which is plenty long, but there are obstructions at both ends. I'm landing to the South, which has a monster willow tree and then the wires. Psychologically it is a tougher landing. Landing to the North is a piece of cake, just some normal trees that you can skim over and then slip on in.
jrussell4711 4 years ago
whoops... double dribble... but if that's all that happened, hey it's ok...
louswire 4 years ago
I'd name that airport death regional. lol..
smokingws6 4 years ago
lol
theprofessor172 4 years ago
Cleared to land, runway 666. follow the 747 on final.
DG121480 4 years ago
he added two shots of power there, one right after the lines, and then one when he went to flare and went "oh shit no lift, lets add power" and by that time he had as we pilots call it "arrived" haha good save tho man
phishyphunk 4 years ago
looks like kind of a tricky runway to get into though.
N520UP 4 years ago
ouch hahahah.
N520UP 4 years ago
A SUCCESSFUL LANDING is CONSIDERED WHEN THE PILOT GO OUT WITH THEIR LEGS. AND I'M SURE THAT THIS IS FIELD IS VERY DIFFICULT!
cocchila 4 years ago
ive done worse.
nede0701 4 years ago
it happens lol
burningcow422 4 years ago
Hey, it happens. We can't be perfect all the time.
RobertGary1 4 years ago
oops lol
mustang2005 4 years ago
haha, kinda lost lift there!! good save tho
phishyphunk 4 years ago
Actually, I mushed out on the VGs (power off) at about 15 feet in the air but caught it with power. Barely. When going slow with the VGs you have to keep in mind that the airplane will fly slower with power on than power off...good thing Cubs are tough.
jrussell4711 4 years ago
it was just a little bounce....and a little crabbed
jam3104 5 years ago
WOW
Rightway111 5 years ago