The International Cessna 170 Association

So the schools will not let you land on grass strips Is this limitation just for the tail draggers? I'd be willing to bet that paved strips have claimed many more tail draggers than grass strips

Wow 8O One quart every hour acceptable by TCM :? One might tend to think that TCM has stock in AeroShell :roll: Thanks for making me feel good with my oil consumtion rate of 1 quart every 3.3 hours average. I suppose I need to start work on the auxiliary oil tank mod for those long XC flights if the...

Glad you survived that strip OK, Pete Sounds like you had an experience similar to mine earlier this month at T94 in San Antonio while landing on rwy 30 with a tailwind....per the published special operating procedure

Just as soon as I got off this site last night, I began looking once again through the Aircraft Spruce cataloge. I found my answer for my instrument panel lighting woes :) The Fiberlite lighting system seems to be the economical way to get a soft even flow of light across the face of each instrument...

After waging battle with the two pesky Grimes lights, trying to get them to cast some usable light on my panel, I have run up the white flag :( I have come to the conclusion that the only way to get safe, usable instrument lighting is with individual post lights. I'd like to hear from some folks tha...

I purchased my 170B in June. Have 51 hours on it since then. Just completed a family vacation to Texas and back. In the 30 hours since last oil and filter change, I have added 9 quarts :( Never going above 6 quarts at any time and engine always turning 2450 in cruise. 900 SMOH...but that was done in...

The pushrod tubes on the middle two cylinders of my O-300 are leaking as well. Appears to be coming from the rubber seals as I have active drips from the bottom of the compression/retainer clamps with no trace of oil farther up on the tubes near the rocker box. I am going to use the coversion kit th...

And that special operating note in the FlightGuide and on airnav.com set me up for the scare of my flying career 8O Had I ignored the special operating note at T94 regarding a downwind landing when winds are 12 knots or less, I would have come in over some higher trees to rwy 12, landing into the wi...

Both of the caps on my 170B are leaking :cry: They are both vented caps, and I have replaced the gasket on both of them...so the fuel must be coming out of the vent assembly itself. The right cap really puts it overboard to the point that I see the fuel stain on the leading edge of the right horizon...

The tip on the AN style DG from George is a good one. I suppose if the AN DG in my 170 were functioning OK I would think about learning to use in properly, but mine requires resetting about every 5 minutes. The idea of standardization with other airplanes as far as instruments go is appealing to me ...

Yes, the tailwind really added to my problems at T94 in San Antonio. I was led into the situation by the operational notes contained in the AOPA Airport Guide listing as well as the FlightGuide binder. I now consider a landing on rwy 30 at T94 with a tailwind to be a "box canyon" affair. T...

I have a '54 B model that has the compass mounted in the panel. I would like to move the compass to the windscreen...or have it hard mounted to the small vertical surface of the airframe at the top of the windscreen and then hang down for viewing on some type of stauncion. I have an idea this would ...

I would also look at the DG issue. Being from a world of modern DGs or full glass cockpits, I find it very hard to deal with the old-style AN DG that remains in my 170. I hate math, and trying to come up with reciprical headings is really a chore for me if I do not have the full 360 degree presentat...

Now parts of the puzzle are coming together for me :) During the initial phase of the go-around, I did not feel comfortable diverting my attention from outside the cockpit to inside to fiddle with the flap handle, not to mention pitching up while the flaps were being retracted. When I retract the fl...

Closing in on 11,000 hours flying time and I have just had the most terrifying experience of my career conducting a go-around in my O-300 powered 170B at Twin Oaks Airpark in San Antonio. I was coming in on rwy 30 with a quartering tailwind. Recommended at T94 to land on 30 even with up to 12kts tai...