The International Cessna^® 170 Association

We leave shortly for Idaho to look at a new to us airplane today

We hope the weather is good and will meet up with serveral TIC 170A members in the process. I don't know for sure what's the most exciting the plane or meeting someone you have only chatted with on this forum........both will be a day to remember for sure

Anyway the plane is white with "RED" stripes...lucking thing it still has training wheels and I no freakin 'NUT" either

Hope to post some pics later...gotta go or I'll miss my flt. FSD to LWS (for bluelder)


W.

That was an ugly thing to do, Willie. I wont be able to sleep tonight wondering where you are and where you're going.

All

We are back home and will be posting pictures soon. It was a very fun flight. We met up with Richard Pulley in Lewiston Idaho and he was our CFI on the way back, so John and I are now signed off on a U-206. What a blast we had. We wanted to meet up with Bill Ables too but the weather dictated we boogie so we were dodging rain all the way back. We spent Monday night with a freind in Laurel Mt. Then we made it home tonight just in time ......then the cloulds moved in at 300' AGL
I promise to post some pics in the next several days.

W.

Hey Willy,

Glad to hear you fellows had a good flight home...you got out just in time...just after you called boy did the skies open up here with some good snow and rain mixed...Enjoy your 206!!! Looks like I'll just have to take a short trip back to MN and see how you're treating that plane...Now that Mick is without a plane he's made me promise to take him into Minam Lodge for breakfast when they get up and going...Darn...

Congrats on the new bird, Dubya!

I imagine you rec'd some excellent input from our very talented RP, but allow me to offer a suggestion: I found my 206 was very easy on tires, brakes, and very happily performed soft-field/short-field as it's "everyday" habit. A bit of flaps on every takeoff and lifting the nosewheel's weight early-on gave very pleasing results, especially when light. I only rarely used standard takeoff/landing techniques with that airplane, usually only when actually loaded with more than 1,000 lbs of payloard or more.
I found that tires wore out quickly on pavement, until I resorted to the short/soft-field techniques. (This was not an alignment problem, it was only a discovery that tires wore out in 400 landings at big airports instead of 100, when the short/soft was regularly used. I think it was because the tires rolled only 1/3rd the distance. With my typical load of only one or two folks aboard, that airplane was a screamin' STOL-macheinin'.)

Friends in Laurel MT? I met alot of the airport crowd when I was up there a few years back. Frank Felke is the only name I remember cause I do business with him, But I knew Denny Lynch well before he died a couple eyars back. Denny had to an emergency pit stop here in Mena with his "fire bomber" several years back, and we spent weeks together getting the old bird back flying.

Pictures, and tall tales Dubya??????

Congrats on the new bird.