J-3 Adventures

[Paughco]

I flew my Cub from First Air in Monroe, WA (W16) up to Harvey Field (S43), never getting much over a 1,000 ft altitude. A Piper Cherokee AI aircraft was doing touch and goes on 15R, which is the grass strip. It looked inviting, so I selected carb heat and pulled power and started a glide to approach behind the Cherokee. Everything was going fine on final until just before touchdown the airplane went into a steep bank. I managed to get it down in one piece. Took off again, and flew another pattern, and landed behind the Cherokee. This time, just as I was getting ready to flare, the same thing happened, only worse. We got down all right, but not necessarily in one piece. Fortunately the "Shift-7 Workshop" is always open and works very quickly. I took off and flew back to First Air.

What happened? Freak wind current? Something with Accu-Sim? Watch this! http://www.brainjet.com/random/10329/27 ... #slide/0/0. It's a "Flight Chops" video about wake turbulence. Hey, this is a J-3 landing behind a friggin' Cherokee, not a C-172 landing behind a Dash-8! I opened up Active Sky Next and turned wake turbulence down from the default 50 to 20. That should do it.

Next day I flew the same route, over to Harvey. The Cherokee was still there, only this time he was shooting touch and goes on 33L, which is the same grass strip, only going the other way. Let me tell you, I was really careful. Kept some extra speed, and was ready. Wake turbulence was not such an issue. I decided that I could taxi over to the Buzz-Inn for a burger. Met this hot babe. Said her name was Heidi, and she really needed a ride to Monroe. I didn't want to know what she had in her back pack. She was kind of nervous during the short flight over to First Air, but I managed to grease the landing and she didn't even whimper. Some guys showed up to pick her up in a flat black van and I rolled the cub back into her hanger.

Seeya
ATB

[spork]

I didn't want to know what she had in her back pack.

Gotta love the PNW.

[Paughco]

Wonder if I could sneak the P-40 into Firstair? 2000 feet. Kinda short.

Seeya
ATB

[Lewis - A2A]

Great thing about sim land is that you can still try and try and try,.... and share your fortunes and challenge

cheers,
Lewis

[n421nj]

Wake turbulence is no joke