Someone had an idea of marked T-shirts for an informal get together.
Backcountry pilot.org with Cubs, Maule, or Skywagons on it ?

Anyone hanging out at the SeaBase 27-28 th ?

winger wrote:Someone had an idea of marked T-shirts for an informal get together.
Backcountry pilot.org with Cubs, Maule, or Skywagons on it ?

Oh NO! Not another t-shirt with a Super Cub on it! I'm trying really hard to convince people that you don't need a Super Cub/taildragger to land on a <2,000' grass strip!

How about a Maule and a C-206 with the biggest AK tires that can fit?

On a side note: The wife and I went to Washington Island (2P2) on the tip of Door Co., WI. with 3hr of fuel, bikes, and baggage and took off with no problem at the 2,200' grass strip with a 2,500'DA. The Musketeer is working it's way into smaller and smaller strips.

-Todd Giencke

OK lets make it simple, a hat with Backcountry Pilots,
tgiencke, nice looking plane, looks like your handling it well.

My place is 700 feet, then up hill to stop you, or to add power if you can land slow.
A good landing here is needing no breaks with any single cessna. Taking off up hill,The hill has high tree's,
You need power and high wing to do it. 4 no. of Albany2 rivers Lk.
There's another strip 1800 ft.N/S a mile to the west,
You can land anytime there.
Pat Zies is his name if your going by. they like visiters.

winger wrote:OK lets make it simple, a hat with Backcountry Pilots,
700 feet, then up hill to stop you, or to add power if you can land slow.
A good landing here is needing no breaks with any single cessna.
2200 feet ? that's for twins..

I could definitely use a new high quality baseball hat for flying. But it needs to be a color that hides sweat stains.

If you are not looking upwind in that pic it doesn't look that hard at all. I would definitely do it if I was alone. But I'm not going to go out and scare my wife with a really short strip. That would end our fly camping.

I have a 1,300' marker at my home grass strip (1MN5). If I'm not loaded to max gross I can get off and climb easily by the marker. Last week I was doing some shortfield practise with 25gal on board and was using 1,000' for takeoff and landing.

Sure it isn't STOL but I think a lot of STOL is in the pilot and not the plane.

-Todd Giencke

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Sure it isn't STOL but I think a lot of STOL is in the pilot and not the plane.
-Todd Giencke[/quote]

Man you got that right.
I have seen more power and less load with the same Skywagon as mine try takeoffs in heavy waves at Osh, I waited and waited to see the snap of the flaps to force it off, but no, they start with 20, leave it there and BANG against waves for a long time before getting off.

On wheels knowing your plane and having patience to fly it off seems to work. There doesn't seem to be any model of plane that has a higher skill level shown by its owners. The net pics and vid's shows alot of dumb things . Its human nature to wanna have fun..
Maybe the fun expected trips the dumb wire in our brain.

We (I am with John) are in row 532, 3 or 4 planes in from the road. A Beech Sierra, with a big green tent and awning. Hope to see some BCP guys here.