BCPilotguy, maybe you and Pipepainter and a couple of the other low wing guys should start a new section in the knowledge base. Back Country Pilot Low Wing. Your moto could be "You don't need big tires just big balls". I know you guys have to pick your landing area very carefully the same as I do with my 172 but it is great to see all kinds of planes doing back country stuff and going into places that 10 years ago they would not even attempt.
Fly Safe and park near a fishing hole.

Cherokees do great on the AK Peninsula, throw some 8.50s on it and it's a decent beach goer.

Haha ya maybe one of these days I will!

Hey I wish I could get some 8.5's! I am maxed out..

Why not 29s? Take the doors off and leave the gear down!

Gump

175 magnum wrote:BCPilotguy, maybe you and Pipepainter and a couple of the other low wing guys should start a new section in the knowledge base. Back Country Pilot Low Wing.

Frankly there's not much to know that doesn't apply universally to all airplanes. As the guy who owned the flight school where I learned to fly used to say "A plane is a plane is a plane is a plane."

175 magnum wrote: I know you guys have to pick your landing area very carefully the same as I do with my 172 but it is great to see all kinds of planes doing back country stuff and going into places that 10 years ago they would not even attempt.
Fly Safe and park near a fishing hole.

I know a lot of low wing pilots who won't take their airplanes anywhere that isn't pavement or carefully manicured grass (of course there are high wing pilots like this too). There is no mystical force that will break a low wing airplane if its pilot decided to land somewhere less than civilized. No one will tout a low wing as the next big thing in bush planes, and you won't find us hanging out with the big rocks and long props crowd (except at the pub afterwards) but any reasonable strip that will take a 172 or 182 will take a Cherokee (as long as the brush isn't too high!). Low wings might not have the look, but one still takes me fishing.

175 magnum wrote:"You don't need big tires just big balls"

This needs to be on a t-shirt somewhere!

N300RE wrote:Cherokees do great on the AK Peninsula, throw some 8.50s on it and it's a decent beach goer.

You don't need 8.50s for the beach when you have wheel pants! A little known fact about wheel pants is that they're like adding a good 3" on to the diameter of your tires!


(My airplane, not my photo. I haven't made it out there yet)

I am curious about the 8.50s though (especially being that I'll be replacing my tires next year). How much of a speed penalty do they carry, and what do you have on the nose?

Got a picture from yesterday's flight

Had a 180 Cherokee for about 100 hrs. once. Took off the wheel pants and seldom was on the pavement. Nothing like our guys take on now but the ground effect and manual flaps made for some fun T and L.
Had a close one with a marker on a Nevada improved road . One of our members was not so lucky.
I really liked that plane but high wing TW has been my choice ever since.

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I actually just re-watched this one this morning and had a nice chuckle...

chance,

You have to have the loader pull the markers out and then put them back after you're done.

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