Originally Posted by Spruit
please excuse my ignorance here but what does one of these entail?
It's just flying out to another airport to bring somebody home. Thinking back on it, I've actually done 4. Two at real airports, two at farm/ultralight strips. Twice we've had somebody run the wing for us, and twice we didn't. Not having a wing runner is a skill that the average 14 year old in my club is good at.
Originally Posted by Sedbergh
Piper Porno is definitely the best option
There's a piper model I'm not familiar with. Sounds distracting! I've done 3 retrieves with a pawnee, one with a cub. One of the retrieves I wish I had the cub rather than the pawnee. It was a short, narrow, very sloped farm strip. It sloped up to the north. At the north end, there were big trees. Wind was from the south. Between the trees and the slope, the only practical way to land was North. It took me two tries to get the pawnee in. Getting out was a breeze, between the downhill run and the headwind on takeoff. The cub would have been much easier to land.
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