My good friend OWES me...

[Dream to fly]

Got a friend who needed to get his plane back from another airport and he couldn't get an instructor to fly with him.  So I offered as he said and I quote "its a Cessna".  I'll help a Cessna 172 is fun to fly.  Wrong it was a Cessna 150 Tricycle gear.  No friend puts another friend in a 150 if they know he flies a MOONEY.....   I had mosquitos passing me down wind.  If ever you need a humbling experience and need a slower pace of life fly a 150 in a ND breeze. 

[kpaul]

3 minutes ago, Dream to fly said:

Got a friend who needed to get his plane back from another airport

You need to check your definition of FRIEND. 

[Ron McBride]

I flew a friend in my Mooney to drop it off, and we picked up a 172 and brought it home.  15 minutes in the Mooney, 35 minutes in the 172.

[Yetti]

#mooneyfast

[peevee]

As bad as your luck is I'm surprised a wing didn't fall off soon as you touched it

 

[Dream to fly]

As bad as your luck is I'm surprised a wing didn't fall off soon as you touched it

 

Well sometimes bad luck is just a hard life lesson you only fail if you stop trying.

 

 

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[carusoam]

Joe,

Ever feel like a higher power was testing your patience, by handing you a humbling experience?

You passed! 

Best regards,

-a-

[Dream to fly]

Joe,
Ever feel like a higher power was testing your patience, by handing you a humbling experience?
You passed! 
Best regards,
-a-

I get crazy I hate having to fix and try again or work harder, but when it's all over I look back and laugh. This plane purchase has been a nightmare and many things have gone wrong and I've learned a lot. It's not pretty and not the best, but it is fast and safe and traveling in it is fun. So in the end I win I get to say I own and fly my own Mooney and I am a pilot. That is more than most can ever say.

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[steingar]

I remember flying my 150 and getting passed by trucks.  I wouldn't say I remember that aspect fondly.

[kris_adams]

Those winds...when I was stationed in GF, everyone always called them the “devil” winds as they were always blowing strong from Devils Lake towards Grand Forks.  Yes they were often very strong!

[Bravoman]

Just for laughs I did my biannual in a 150 a couple years back. It was like flying an ultra light!

[MIm20c]

Have to say the 150, 172, and piper equivalents were all on the table when I was looking to buy a plane last year. SOOO glad I did not go that direction. 

[LANCECASPER]

23 hours ago, Dream to fly said:

Got a friend who needed to get his plane back from another airport and he couldn't get an instructor to fly with him.  So I offered as he said and I quote "its a Cessna".  I'll help a Cessna 172 is fun to fly.  Wrong it was a Cessna 150 Tricycle gear.  No friend puts another friend in a 150 if they know he flies a MOONEY.....   I had mosquitos passing me down wind.  If ever you need a humbling experience and need a slower pace of life fly a 150 in a ND breeze. 

I got my Private in Grand Forks ND. My first few lessons were in a 152 and one day it wasn't available so we flew the 172. I never rented the 152 again. The 172 felt luxurious in comparison and landed so much better in the ND winds.

[peevee]

I did my commercial, instrument, cfi, cfii all out of gfk.

[EricJ]

25 minutes ago, LANCECASPER said:

I got my Private in Grand Forks ND. My first few lessons were in a 152 and one day it wasn't available so we flew the 172. I never rented the 152 again. The 172 felt luxurious in comparison and landed so much better in the ND winds.

It's interesting how people react to things differently.   I did pretty much all of my early flying experience (probably the first couple hundred hours) almost exclusively in C150s and C172s.   To me the 150 was a lot more fun for learning flying, like spins, hammerhead turns, chandelles, etc.   It's a nice handling, predictable, fairly nimble little airplane, which I think is why they bothered to make an aerobat model.   But it is seriously damned slow.   If you just wanted to build time, cross countries in the 150 were a cheap, but boring, way to do it.   Took forever to get anywhere.

In comparison, to me, the C172s redeeming qualities were a little (not a lot) more speed, a back seat, and a little (not a lot) better climb performance.   Other than that, it handled worse, the elevator seems unnecessarily annoyingly heavy, and it just seemed a lot less fun than the 150.   More practical for sure, but less fun.

But since these days I can make myself queasy just doing dutch rolls in the Mooney, I doubt I'd really get the benefit of flying a 150 again, but I'd be keen to try.

[jaylw314]

1 hour ago, LANCECASPER said:

I got my Private in Grand Forks ND. My first few lessons were in a 152 and one day it wasn't available so we flew the 172. I never rented the 152 again. The 172 felt luxurious in comparison and landed so much better in the ND winds.

I actually liked the 152 better than the 172 during training, it just seemed like when you did something, the plane immediately followed.  In the 172, with the extra weight, when you did something, the plane seemed like it would wait a while and then say "oh, ok, FINE, I'll raise my nose."

Of course, I never went above 3000' in the 152.  That might have changed my mind

Edited January 31, 2018 by jaylw314

[INA201]

I guess I'll chime in.  After flying with other friends the past few months while we are getting avionics work done I wanted to be PIC for an hour.  N52344 a rental 172 was on the ramp ready to go. Having not flown a 172 for a few years I was a bit nervous but once she fired up it became old shoe.   Taxied out and to my surprise it was amazing how easy these planes are to fly.  After two touch and goes I did some close in slips to final, short field landings, short field takeoffs, and the like.  You can put in full flaps and pretty much aim straight down on final and just work it all out in the flare.  Going from the helm of a Mooney to a 172 to me was very very easy but did fulfill my need to fly and flying is way more fun than waiting around.   

[peevee]

4 minutes ago, jaylw314 said:

 

Of course, I never went above 3000' in the 152.  That might have changed my mind

Took a 150 to 5k once to spin it. Took a long long time.

[jaylw314]

8 minutes ago, peevee said:

Took a 150 to 5k once to spin it. Took a long long time.

I didn't know they went so high!  

[Niko182]

all of you need to try a J-3. slowest plane ive ever flown, and by far the most fun. i was lucky if i got to 80mph. something nice also about crossing the threshold  at 40mph and having a ground roll under 250ft.

[RLCarter]

Cessna 150's are like riding a moped, a lot of fun, but you don't want your friends to see you 

[TonyK]

I have a 66 172G with the O-300D in it.   It is a fun airplane to go tour around locally but frustratingly slow when you are actually trying to get somewhere.  However with the 40deg of flaps it gives you the opportunity to get out and do a walk around while you are on short final. 

[RLCarter]

14 minutes ago, TonyK said:

I have a 66 172G with the O-300D in it.   It is a fun airplane to go tour around locally but frustratingly slow when you are actually trying to get somewhere.  However with the 40deg of flaps it gives you the opportunity to get out and do a walk around while you are on short final. 

I fly a 172G as well, 200+ hrs in it. Getting some much needed TLC now, can't wait to get it back in the air

[Browncbr1]

I wouldn’t mind having access to a slow cheap as heck plane to build time at a very low cost.  Just spend all day flying around chasing birds.  Try to land at every field in the state in a day or something in a mite sounds fun.  

[peevee]

I got my private in 1998/9 and thought 45 bucks an hour was exorbitant for a 150, lol.  I can't imagine the guys paying 5 bucks or something back in the 70s.