robw56 wrote:So it has a sportsman stol kit and stol fences? Interesting.

I ~think~ it used to have the Horton STOL, when it got the Sportsman the fences were left on. I'll have to flip through the logs to figure it out exactly.

180Marty wrote:Great looking plane Vick and nice trip report. The Beaver info got my attention----I thought Poland is a terrible place but somebody has a better opportunity than me if they can fly around in that thing. Did you happen to find out who it was going to?

No doubt - the pilot reported about 105mph on 20gph in cruise on the amphibs! Yikes! Maybe the buyer has his own refinery.

RDUStinson wrote:Nice story and pics! I was just getiing curious about whether you'd made it home, and figured I'd find the answer here. You didn't disappoint.

The FBO folks gladly offered to fill us up for $1 more a gallon but just on principle I jumped in the plane and flew 25 miles west to Freemont

Good job. Maybe that'll make you feel a litte better about the highway robbery they pulled on us at that fuel stop in NM. Was it Sedona?

I think it was Santa Fe - i'd still like to go back there and choke the crap out of that guy. We should have known better, we weren't really their target market.

Vick wrote:

robw56 wrote:So it has a sportsman stol kit and stol fences? Interesting.

I ~think~ it used to have the Horton STOL, when it got the Sportsman the fences were left on. I'll have to flip through the logs to figure it out exactly.

That makes sense.

Vick wrote:

RDUStinson wrote:Nice story and pics! I was just getiing curious about whether you'd made it home, and figured I'd find the answer here. You didn't disappoint.

The FBO folks gladly offered to fill us up for $1 more a gallon but just on principle I jumped in the plane and flew 25 miles west to Freemont

Good job. Maybe that'll make you feel a litte better about the highway robbery they pulled on us at that fuel stop in NM. Was it Sedona?

I think it was Santa Fe - i'd still like to go back there and choke the crap out of that guy. We should have known better, we weren't really their target market.

I'd go on http://www.Airnav.com and type in your comments about your experience there. Sometimes that might get somebody's attention.

Looking good! Congrats!

Sounds like a great trip, and thanks for sharing the pics. Enjoy your new bird.

Thanks for sharing Vick, truly nice...plane and photos.

I fly down to Richfield on Saturdays when I can. They do a nice little breakfast and its just enjoyable sometimes to surround yourself with some fine, GA-loving folks who love to shoot the bull. Its good for the soul.

Lee gives my two sons those little balsa wood gliders to put together and fly after breakfast... they love it and its the only thing I can promise them to get them up before the chickens on a weekend.

I'm glad you had a good experience there as well as a great x/c.

SixTwoLeemer wrote:Thanks for sharing Vick, truly nice...plane and photos.

I fly down to Richfield on Saturdays when I can. They do a nice little breakfast and its just enjoyable sometimes to surround yourself with some fine, GA-loving folks who love to shoot the bull. Its good for the soul.

Lee gives my two sons those little balsa wood gliders to put together and fly after breakfast... they love it and its the only thing I can promise them to get them up before the chickens on a weekend.

I'm glad you had a good experience there as well as a great x/c.

Lee is awesome! He's what convinced me to spend the night there rather than press on. Ended up sitting around the office with him talking for quite a while. Richfield seems like a great example of what GA used to be everywhere - friendly, enthusiastic people that love aviation. It's great that they're so active in Young Eagles, sounds like they have a very successful program. Lee said he's flown something like 100 himself. He was fired up for his new RV-6A that he was going to pick up this week.

rob the fences are part of the robertson stol. the sportsman cuff is an exelent adition to the robertson witch on the later cessna wing is just fences and droopy alerons. I believe the r stol on the early cessna wing has a small cuff

oops I thought it said robertson on the tail, on closer inspection it is skywagon