rwellner98
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Definitely not the highlight of our trip, but at least all it took was a couple hours of digging and strip repair to get us going again!
Good battery.
I would think you might want to spend some time on Backcountry.org
That looked like a pretty deep hole so this may not work, but I have seen good results from getting 2-3 people to push up on the wing (pilot side in your case) and rocking the wing forward or aft from the tip. You get a lot of lever advantage from the span of the wing and it doesn’t take super human strength to unload the wheel in the hole and pull it out.
why did that woman look so unenthused?
I watched the video just to see what you were talking about. Now I have the same question!
Also, was nobody else there willing to help? Just curious. Maybe there were but just not in the footage posted?
I am impressed with the time and effort you put to fill in that hole after you got your plane out. I wish more people were like you.
It really is a one person job. The person who lent me the shovel was a CFI who was working with a couple students. There was no reason for them to interrupt what they were doing to help me.