The International Cessna 170 Association

A friend of mine gave me a Safe-T-Stop for the seat stop. Previously I had a bolt through a hole in the rail that would allow the seat to come back far enough to get in, but not all the way back. The Safe-T-Stop is better (I think) as it screws into a pin hole right behind the seat when I'm all the ...

Not yet, but I'll give it a try.

Oh yeah 8) I definately concure with the full flap go-around. I've got about 20hrs in mine now over the last month, I went through a learning curve with an instructor during the first ten hours, and I've gone through a similar learning curve after I kicked him out of the plane. So about three or fou...

It's still there, but it's kind of transient and not as loud as the first time I noticed it taxiing. I'm going to pull the cable and see if I can lube it/replace it.

It's interesting to read about other peoples approach speeds, flap use, etc. I'm still new to my plane (it's older than me so I guess I'm newer to it rather than it to me) and learning, but it's clear to me that they all have their own personalities. Mine has a 7645 climb prop on it, and consequentl...

For what it's worth I always use 30-40 degrees of flaps in my 52 B model. It's just opinion, but I like to turn base to final as close to the runway as comfortable. If I loose the motor I can still make the runway.

Ok doughnuts for all and forget them dammed deer horns, I'm 99.9999% sure it's the tach cable, definately not the horns though.

I'd gladly buy you all a whole pile of doughnuts if that could be the case, and I tried to convice myself that was where the sound was coming from. If I can make it go away by covering the deer horns (I've got one on each side) I'd be exstatic. I'm going to run it up after work tonight, it was raini...

Well after 30+ years of dreaming, 4 years of driving 40 miles to fly rental planes, and 1 1/2 years teasing myself with a scratchbuilt SuperCub project I finally bit the bullet and borrowed money from the bank to buy my 170B. I already love it like no other plane I've flown. It's funny how dreams se...

So tell us the story about the plane.

I just went through some of the same steering issues with my 170 that I bought a month ago. I was convinced that it was the castor assembly, but it wasn't. It turned out to be bad wheel bearings for the tailwheel itself, and I think they were over-torqued as well. All that drag caused the assembly t...