The International Cessna 170 Association

I sent the files to the addresses above. I am very happy with the installation of the Sportsman leading edge. As an A&P, I installed it myself, so there wasn't too much cost associated. I would recommend it to anybody trying to improve their performance and safety. The most useful improvement it...

I installed a sportsman STOL kit on my 170a model in 2013. My PMI said a few years back, he would've signed it off on the spot for me, but now it had to go to the ACO. It took about a year and a half for the ACO to finally get back with a change requirement, then another few months to approve the ch...

So after looking around for hours, I posted my question. As soon as I clicked "Submit", I looked down at my TCDS and saw the loading graph below has a note that says "Index Units= Moment/1000"! That was easy...

I have a question about the W&B chart in the TCDS. It doesn't look anything like the electronic W&B charts floating around here. The number at the bottom of the chart says "Index Units" and the scale is from 40-120. What unit is that? A few searches of Weight and Balance info didn'...

But did you strap a $200 camera to it??

Blueldr I agree, if I could find a video editing program that made sense it would help! But mostly the video is just to assist the NTSB. I don't want to waste tax payers money

Mod.Note: To avoid taking another thread off-topic this post was moved to it's own topic. Hey, not to drudge up an old thread, but I have a question for Aryana. How did you mount your GoPro??? I mounted a Sony cam like the GoPro to my wing (made a thicker inspection panel with holes for mounting) a...

Fun!

Something that helped me a lot was trimming the nose up aggressively on final. It requires decent yoke pressure on a go-around, but it's doable. I felt that I was holding the elevator full aft but wasn't quite there. Helped me a lot.

Eklutna Lake Tana River My first offroad landing (the guy in the background was teaching me) Knik Glacier/Lake George A lodge in the Wrangell Mountains

For filling the brake master cylinder, I used (this morning, in fact) a "Justrite" Squeeze bottle. There's a link to it below (from a random supplier). It is phenominal, and costs less than $20. You still have to remove the seat and roll on your belly, but it's very easy to control the amo...

Hahaha. I love your story Blueldr. That was a good laugh, and a good moral. When I bought my plane in December, I had only 60 hours flight time, and all of that was in Michigan flatlands. After one flight with the owner, and one biannual review flight, I found it very lonely and difficult to master ...

Not to beat a dead horse (I see this is a month old), but I use my Ipad 2 with Foreflight exclusively for in cockpit GPS. The old Nav unit in the plane hasn't functioned since I bought it, so it was a good excuse to tell my wife that I needed to get an Ipad :) Anyhoo, I absolutely love it! There are...

Thanks for all the advice everybody. I am taking it to heart and working on a solution. Thanks!
Kevin

Beautiful, thank you! No NTSB reports on it. I checked all the airframe logs, but no entries of a repair to the gear area. Do you think it would be appropriate to ask the current owners to obtain a 337 for previously performed repairs? I'm confident that removing rivets and replacing them with anoth...

Wow, that was a quick response! I guess I didn't post all my thoughts very well. I was hoping to know a bit more of the history of that plane as well, so I was hoping somebody knew the previous owner (or maybe he's still a member here). I will do some more searching, I'm looking over the logbooks to...