I found this older video series about flying the Cessna 185 Skywagon in the agricultural roll. There is some decent information about takeoffs and landings in this video.


If you are anything like me, you will enjoy some beautiful Cessna Skywagon noises about 5 mins in.

He does a fine job of flying on a really long runway at impressive pitch angles on takeoff we never experience with a load. His landings are good apparent brisk walk rate of closure generally, but we should be landing at a slower, not faster, ground speed with a crosswind. Part of that crosswind is headwind component which will allow touchdown much slower and safer. It is common to give up this slower groundspeed advantage by increasing airspeed, but certainly not necessary.

On that field he should never use brakes except to ground loop around to load facing the takeoff direction. He should have to change the brake in the direction of this turn every couple of years.

Energy management doesn't demand attention until conditions, situations, and errors pile up on us, but should be habitual for the day they do.

Ozzies, love them, my daughter has both passports from when we lived there. You all do realize there are no mountains there right??

Cessna built the low gull wing Ag Wagon pretty much out of this airplane. Both Piper and Leland Snow built their Ag planes around the pilot a bit more. Ag Wagon really looks good but doesn't fit as snugly. It is more like being in a C-180 or 185.

Lap passenger’d once in one back in the day when I was like 10[emoji2958]. I got to operate the money handle. Coolest thing ever.

Thirty five years ago : two brave fellows did a circuit with one of them holding on to a wing strut on a wagon. The pilot landed scared s---less and I assume the passenger did also. Well known true story from south Saskatchewan.