Posted on 04/07/2010 11:03:03 AM PDT by Dead Dog
Hey freeper pilots! What's your favorite flying destination…and what do you fly?
Beech Sundowner. Based out of 16J - Dawson, GA
Love flying to just about anywhere on the Gulf Coast.
Shelter Cove, Q05.
3W2 - Put in Bay
Interesting. Were all 172’s still taildraggers by 1975, or was this a special order or a conversion?
Anything in the mountains...flying anything I can get my hands on.
It was a tricycle. Someone crashed it and it was sold at an auction to an A & P. He rebuilt it as a 180hp and converted it to a taildragger.
Any plane that gets me to Miami, then a 12 seater puddle jumper to Marathon Key.
Alas, my flying days are over. I sold the Navion in 1985
767 to Barcelona - Rome is great also. Retired now, flying a Gulfstream 450 to Anchorage tomorrow, great town for a layover.
Lake Hood/ Anchorage. hands down the coolest lake/airport in the country.
Niteflyr drives a 1953 Cessna turbo 195...I’ve always like Flabob near Riverside CA...like going back in time....:o)
Before I bought the 195 I converted an 0-360/1956 172 to a taildragger using all 180 parts....link to an article I wrote about it on Taildraggers.com> Here
Too much money.
Uses too much fuel and cost are beyond belief.
Second that! $250K buys a really nice A36
How do you like turbo conversion?
I own and am flying a Quicksilver GT500 and a Quicksilver GT400. I have a Sports Pilot ticket. Currently my home base is Washington, GA (KIIY) and I have roamed out to San Antonio, TX; Fort Pierce, FL; Charleston, WV; and other places. Usually I am flying to Charlotte, NC and North Myrtle Beach, SC to see the same girl friend.
I hope to upgrade to the new Piper Sport in the next few months.
I sure would like to see a Freeper Fly In sometime within 600 miles of “KIIY”.
Cessna 172’s were never taildraggers. Cessna’s taildraggers included the 170,180, 140, 120 and 195. Plus some of Clyde Cessna’s early products were taildraggers. (I might have left out some models of Cessna that were tailwheel.)
A company makes a conversion called Texas Taildragger where they modify Cessna 152’s into tailwheel aircraft.
I fly three different Cessna Citation CJ’s, a CJ1+, a CJ2 and a CJ2+. Favorite destination? They’re all good.
Wow, Citations.....knew some big hitters were here.
My fav was a Twin Commanche, but don’t fly anymore....started with ‘49 Ryan Navion, Commanche 180, then twin Commanche, then Cessna 310 - but Twin Commanche was the best, tho a little hot on landing....
gatornapper
I have two friends with turbos and we are kind of the bastard children in the 195 club. :o) We all agree to use it as a normalizer rather than horsepower booster...don't feel too good using 35 inches on a 1930's technology engine...but it's nice to have more throttle as you climb compared to the normally aspirated R-755...and after a few niggling problems were sorted out after the debut of the STC it is working well for most.
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