c175 landing mountain strip, from the ground

Cessna 175 landing on a Mountain strip at Rams Horn Lodge, in the Idaho Back country.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Airplane
• Backcountry
• cessna
• 175
• skylark
• landing

[Patrick0Elliott]

Doug: I have a Lyc. O-360 and C/S prop in this plane. it's hard to see in the video, but the runway has a serious upslope and I didn't want a very steep approach, I was using 30 degrees of flaps and landed long because of runway condition at the bottom.. plus you want to be at the top to turn around, less gravel there..

[DougDaCosta]

Typo Correction on the Full throttle at sea level.... 17 gph! That's 3 gph more than a C-182 would burn! Normally, at 3,200 rpm above 9,000 feet altitude, I'd burn about 12.5 gph leaned out. With the Lyc O-360 full throttle at 2,450 rpm, the burn was an average 10.4 gph at the same cruise speed as with the GO-300. The C-175 Skylark had a baggage door and a more modern instrument panel than the C-172 of the '58-'60 years. '61-'62, only the engine was different.

[DougDaCosta]

He could have used full flap at 60 mph IAS and not used up so much of that short runway. The ‘58-‘60 C-175 has a 175 hp geared Cont GO-300 with thin bladed 84-67 fixed F/P prop. The engine turned 3,200 while the prop turned 2,400 rpms. ‘61-‘62 used a C/S prop. It was a gas hog of an engine. The handbook said, “Full throttle at sea level…7 gph is considered normal.” I got rid of the GO-300 and replaced it with a Lyc. O-360 and C/S prop. Doubled the rate of climb, and cheaper on gas.

[jyokid]

Cessna designed it in the 1950's to fit between the C172 and C182. Four seats, 6 cylinder, ~180hp O300 engine.

[WIPilot1993]

Cessna 175 Skylark. 2,106 Built from 1958-1962

[SoarinRockies]

Awesome!

[mithat87]

Whats a C175?

[Randy29209]

Nice landing! Bet it was lots of fun to boot. Alas, couldn't try that in my Mooney. :-)

[BeechSundowner]

Nice landing :-)

[NekoBirdy]

i hear aimee! <3