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by **Flying Trucker** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 7:53 am

Goodly morning all... <<q

Couple more shots of Winter Bugsmashing, this time in the Cessna 120... :dance:

Not much snow on these Alberta, Canada Fields...but no Skis either...

Time is early morning.

Upwind

Front Office

Low and Over

Going "IFR"...I follow roads...

Comments and Advice most welcome...

by **Roypcox** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 11:50 am

Back in the 50,`s as I was learning to fly and was fixing to do my first solo flight I was with my instructor and he said "do you believe I can make this 120 backup across this airport" , of course I said no and he said "Watch this" He turned the 120 into the wind , reached down with the flap handle and pulled up 3-4 notches of flaps and backed that 65hp continental equipped Cessna 120 across this little airport which was located 25 miles inland of the Gulf of Mexico. We were at about 3-4000 ft and had about 35 mph head wind. He told me to give it full throttle and keep the wings level with the rudders, of course the stall warnings went off and he put the nose down a bit and we back that little Cessna across that airfield. We were both pretty good size guys him over 200 and me about 195. I ask him how was that possible and he said "with the flaps down it created a cup of air or air pocket that was enough to back the Cessna across that arfield with no problem at all". We lost some altitude probably 3-5 hundred ft in the process. I learned a lot about flying that day. I looked at the IAS it was 0-5 knots. It was a very valuable lesson I shall never forget!!!!

by **Flying Trucker** » Thu Jan 28, 2016 3:43 pm

Hi Roypcox...you sure it was not a Cessna 140

http://www.aopa.org/Pilot-Resources/Air ... na-120-140

A paragraph from the above Link:

The 120 had no flaps, but in reality the split-type flaps on the 140 weren't much more than small speed brakes. Pilots transitioning from Cessnas equipped with the powerful Fowler-type flaps that are standard equipment on all Cessna singles built from the mid-1950s on will have to develop some new speed-control discipline if they want to consistently show off their spot-landing skills. Accordingly, the rudder has enough power to make speed control via the sideslip method a routine matter.

You are probably like me Sir...I have to keep checking my Log Books to remember what aircraft was what... <<q