Learning to fly and land a J3 Cub tailwheel

I was learning to fly a tailwheel J3 cub on a real nice evening. It was warm so we flew with the door and widow open. A night to remember.

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Piper
• Cub
• J3
• airplane
• tailwheel
• taildragger
• learning
• to
• fly
• landing
• takeoff
• flying

[akloetzel]

If converted, what is the mileage of a cub in mpg?

[m3fordcord]

@akloetzel They rate airplanes by gallons per hour or GPH because air speed and ground speed may not be the same. If you have a tail wind of 20 MPH and an air speed of 70 MPH ground speed would be 90 MPH. If you burn 4 GPH you would get about 23 MPG but if you had a head wind 20 MPG, now if are only getting about 13MPG. But it's still more fun than driving no matter what the mileage.

[Insanity714]

what is the cruising alt and speed of a cub?

[m3fordcord]

@Insanity714 Well they refer to flying the cub as "low and slow". We normally fly at 70MPH and about a 1000 ft agl or less.

[Jelen226]

yeah I like "low and slow" flying. Is in USA any low level limit? There, in Czech Republic, is minimum flight level 500ft agl, I can't fly lower except takeoff and landing.

[m3fordcord]

@Jelen226 The minimum altitude over congested areas(city or town) is 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a 2,000-foot horizontal radius of the aircraft. Elsewhere, it’s 500 feet above the surface—except over open water or sparsely populated areas, where you must remain at least 500 feet from any person, vessel, vehicle, or structure.

[grissomairport]

It blows my mind at how many people have their own grass strip, most not even on the chart.

[Twostones00]

The most fun you can have with your clothes on.

[Jelen226]

@m3fordcord thanks for reply. It's better, than here :-) by the way, J3 Cub is one of most beautiful aircrafts for me. I wish I can take a ride in one of theese birds someday.

[accuruneide]

AND I LOVE AMERICA also for her big AIR- CULTURE. Nobody can understand how much I dream my country with nice little airports for making the people happy to fly instead of living in this messy-italian way where you can not even decide nothing because we are full of stupid laws and stuff like this... FOR EXAMPLE: owners of small aircraft (ike me) are not free to build a paved runway but we must taking off and landing from the grass... it makes no sense! I wonder why the policy had decided so!

[accuruneide]

I AM SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH, BUT:

I can only say that once a person is able to pilot, the concentration goes so such high that you and the machine become - automatically - one only thing! Panorama and colours all around are something like a frame. And this frame rapresents the reward for your natural big concentration (something that -unfortunely-the people whom are not be able to fly will never see). For that reason I thank my father for all the rest of my life, because he teached me to fly.

[skagui1]

Lol never knew the cub was stick controlled XD