He seems to already have done more of this type of flying than the bottom 98% of pilots combined. How many gravel bar landings have you done if your life? If less than 50, you may not have a good leg to stand on. I have seen videos of stock 150s landing on gravel. Perhaps if more pilots did this type of fun flying the ranks would not have declined and so many airframes left to rot on the ramp and in old guys’ hangars.When this idiot wrinkles the firewall in his 182 I hope he posts the video.
He seems to already have done more of this type of flying than the bottom 98% of pilots combined. How many gravel bar landings have you done if your life? If less than 50, you may not have a good leg to stand on. I have seen videos of stock 150s landing on gravel. Perhaps if more pilots did this type of fun flying the ranks would not have declined and so many airframes left to rot on the ramp and in old guys’ hangars.
He did crash land on a beach recently, but just because of an engine failure (some FOD inside oil passages) and not because of excessively dangerous activity.
The best plane is the one that you are flying. How many Carbon Cubs/Maule/Zenith never even land on a gravel bar in their entire lifetime? I bet a fair percentage.My comment is not about his skill, it is about the selection of the plane for the mission.
When this idiot wrinkles the firewall in his 182 I hope he posts the video.
What does everyone want here?
I wouldn't know, but I can tell you how an angle of attack indicator works in just a few sentences without clickbait.It’s just an interesting flying video.
I agree with the top half of your post, but might quibble with the last sentence. One might argue that taking a freshly worked on aircraft to a beach for this type of flying is excessively dangerous activity. Not that I have a problem with him doing so. We all set our own bar on what risk is acceptable. Personally, I find a lot of his flying to be excessively dangerous, and I’m glad more people aren’t doing it. Enough people die in planes already, we don’t need insufficiently trained people going out and trying this.He seems to already have done more of this type of flying than the bottom 98% of pilots combined. How many gravel bar landings have you done if your life? If less than 50, you may not have a good leg to stand on. I have seen videos of stock 150s landing on gravel. Perhaps if more pilots did this type of fun flying the ranks would not have declined and so many airframes left to rot on the ramp and in old guys’ hangars.
He did crash land on a beach recently, but just because of an engine failure (some FOD inside oil passages) and not because of excessively dangerous activity.
He seems to already have done more of this type of flying than the bottom 98% of pilots combined. How many gravel bar landings have you done if your life? If less than 50, you may not have a good leg to stand on. I have seen videos of stock 150s landing on gravel. Perhaps if more pilots did this type of fun flying the ranks would not have declined and so many airframes left to rot on the ramp and
This would have been an awesome first post to go along with the video rather than one vague sentence that tells a potential viewer virtually nothing.I think he did a good job explaining how an AOA indicator can help you fly your airplane closer to the bottom of the flight envelope safely, so that you can make use of the smallest airfields available for your airplane. This takes practice to methodically get yourself and your airplane in tune to tighter approaches, landings, and takeoffs. The AOA indicator is just another tool to help with that, but you have to practice with it for it to be useful. The 182 is also a good all around airplane with a proven record of use in the Bush. All of the remote mountain airstrips in Montana were flown using a 182.