Congrats and welcome! Your title perfectly sums up the new airplane owner experience.

That's a super sexy looking 170!

contactflying wrote:Welcome. What year did that Cessna Manual start giving some really good advise for inadvertent IMC? It said to take your hands off the yoke and use rudder to get/maintain a slight deflection on the turn needle until course reversal.

I haven’t seen that before, but I haven’t read them all. I’ll start looking!

DeltaRomeo wrote:Thanks for posting the manuals, Aryana! That in itself was a pleasant trip back in time!

I really like sharing the old literature for these birds with folks that appreciate it.

Really Nice Aircraft Enjoy

Aryana wrote:

contactflying wrote:Welcome. What year did that Cessna Manual start giving some really good advise for inadvertent IMC? It said to take your hands off the yoke and use rudder to get/maintain a slight deflection on the turn needle until course reversal.

I haven’t seen that before, but I haven’t read them all. I’ll start looking!

DeltaRomeo wrote:Thanks for posting the manuals, Aryana! That in itself was a pleasant trip back in time!

I really like sharing the old literature for these birds with folks that appreciate it.

We should get them into PDF and make them available in the Knowledge Base section.

Bagarre wrote:
We should get them into PDF and make them available in the Knowledge Base section.

Good idea. I’ll ask Zane what the best way to do it is.

I have tons of stuff covering 1948-1956. Almost everything for each model year 170 and some 180/185 stuff too.

Congrats on the new plane! Very sharp looking.

Thanks for all of the comments and warm welcomes! Man I gotta get my hands on that businessliner pamphlet, that thing is gold!! That's awesome!!

And yes, technically it's a 1953 in the registration, but serial-wise it's a 1954 and has all of the updates that Cessna made for the 1954 model.

Great looking airplane! Congrats!
Still looking for mine...

ironcondor wrote:Thanks for all of the comments and warm welcomes! Man I gotta get my hands on that businessliner pamphlet, that thing is gold!! That's awesome!!

And yes, technically it's a 1953 in the registration, but serial-wise it's a 1954 and has all of the updates that Cessna made for the 1954 model.

Congrats! I'm also at KSNA (C120). Did you get your parking spot assigned yet?

hamer wrote:

ironcondor wrote:Thanks for all of the comments and warm welcomes! Man I gotta get my hands on that businessliner pamphlet, that thing is gold!! That's awesome!!

And yes, technically it's a 1953 in the registration, but serial-wise it's a 1954 and has all of the updates that Cessna made for the 1954 model.

Congrats! I'm also at KSNA (C120). Did you get your parking spot assigned yet?

Awesome! I did. I'm west side next to the 185 over there by Jay's.

Do you go to Jay's for maintenance stuff? Will be looking for recommendations.

ironcondor wrote:

hamer wrote:

ironcondor wrote:Thanks for all of the comments and warm welcomes! Man I gotta get my hands on that businessliner pamphlet, that thing is gold!! That's awesome!!

And yes, technically it's a 1953 in the registration, but serial-wise it's a 1954 and has all of the updates that Cessna made for the 1954 model.

Congrats! I'm also at KSNA (C120). Did you get your parking spot assigned yet?

Awesome! I did. I'm west side next to the 185 over there by Jay's.

Do you go to Jay's for maintenance stuff? Will be looking for recommendations.

I'm a couple rows past Jay's Hangar, hard to miss, the only yellow airplane on this side of the airport. Jay's does good work, but they are pricy and depending on what you need can't schedule you for a couple weeks/months. I have a couple independent guys I work with that are really good. Shoot me a PM with your number and we can chat offline.

1.22 quarts per hr oil consumption. Sounds crazy. Changes it's own oil....

Mark Y. wrote:1.22 quarts per hr oil consumption. Sounds crazy. Changes it's own oil....

When filled to the 8 quart max, the idea is that it should run out of usable gas (37 gallons) before it runs out of oil (4 quarts minimum required for operation).

At their published cruising fuel consumption rate of 9.27 GPH and 1.22 quarts per hour of oil...you won’t make it. [emoji15]