mtv wrote: ....Oh, yeah, and I currently OWN a tailwheel airplane. If it weren't for the regressive tax penalties in this state, I'd sell it and buy a nosewheel airplane in a heartbeat. .... MTV

This reminds me of a friend of mine, only opposite-- he sez landing a tailwheel airplane in crosswinds, etc isn't any big deal. He owns one, but his day in,day out airplane is a nosedragger.
I prefer a tailwheel airplane cuz I like a bit of a challenge, & I think they're more stylish. The same reason I drive a 2 door coupe, instead of a 4-door sedan. (whoever sez that coupe's not a challenge ain't never seen me crawl in or out of it! ) But I'll admit that there's definitley times when I'm on short final for a "challenging" landing that a nosedragger sounds like a good idea.

Eric

If anybody hasn't flown a 150 they should have, a great little machine. I've flown both tailwheel and nosewheel one's. The tailwheel was a well mannered, sedate little machine. If I had a choice of tail or nose it'd be a nosewheel so others just starting could fly it.

I fly a nosewheel currently for work, the only downside is turning circle on narrower strips. Our after hour cruise machine is a Pacer, it looks a lot better than a Tripacer but it's a handfull in the dark with a stiff crosswind.
We're doing up a D model 172 to replace the Pacer, I'll leave the nosewheel on it.

mtv wrote:Make fun of that little wheel under the cowling, but next time your destination has a paved runway, oriented precisely 90 degrees to the current wind, which is gusting to 25, and there's no other source of fuel within your range, I'm betting you'd just ADORE that nose wheel.

The 150- is a great little plane. Period.

I don't think a C150 would be my first choice for a stiff crosswind on pavement either. Nosewheel or tailwheel, fixed-wing or rotor, there's a hell of a lot to be said for mass and inertia when you're working at keeping an object flying through the air in the direction you want it to go!!!

C140 or C150, both would be a handful. Think the C207 or a C185 is what I'd want to be sitting in... But I digress.

The C150 is a GREAT little airplane, and I think in capable hands can do way more than most folks realize. Kicking ego aside, I'd be proud, and not afraid, to fly one pretty much anywhere.

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