Bush flying on a budget (Cessna 172)

[@Theflyingtech1]

The 172s are good fun for short field landing and take offs, we got a couple of the 172s into some nice short sloped grass runways, great video as always mate !!

[@Adam-dl1vn]

Dam this a great vid I wander why it doesn't have that many views

[@damensmith9944]

Wow Cessnock looks a lot different now to when I learnt to fly there nearly 20 years ago.... love your videos, keep up the great work, cheers..

[@aeroplanetoby]

Yep, had some fairly major works done in the last 12 months! Thanks!

[@terencenxumalo1159]

good work

[@aeroplanetoby]

Thanks!

[@fredosman3625]

HAHA you plan to put a few Recreational pilots through theyre licence with that tail number? I like it!

[@aeroplanetoby]

I bought it almost for the rego alone! I think if I sold it I would have to keep the rego!

[@Oglongs]

I like the rego, VH-RPL. But a cheap N model is still like $90k+ with prop/eng time remaining

[@aeroplanetoby]

Yep, valid point! The price for used 172’s is wild at the moment, although not as much as Cub’s!

[@SimonButler]

My N model POH just recommends ten degrees of flap for soft field, no flap for short. I was curious about that so my CFI and I ran tests doing Vx climbs on takeoff with and without flaps and ended up with the same altitude by the end of the runway with either configuration.

[@aeroplanetoby]

That’s interesting! What was the ground roll difference between the two settings for the same technique?

[@SimonButler]

@@aeroplanetoby the ground roll with 10° flaps was definitely less, it got the weight on wings sooner, but the distance to clear a 50' obstacle was almost identical. I think what you gain in less ground roll, you lose in climb performance. However on a soft field, especially a short and soft field, those flaps are very helpful.

[@aeroplanetoby]

Yep that makes sense, depends on the situation! For example, that grass strip in the video is short-ish, but has a clear area after takeoff. So getting airborne short is more important than the angle of climb immediately after takeoff, but some strips are the opposite!

[@SimonButler]

@@aeroplanetoby on grass I'd be using flaps for sure.