LEARNING TO FLY! - First Tailwheel Lesson in a 1940 J3 Cub!

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[pavelavietor]

Hello I have many hours on the type. I lost my first Rey ban sunglasses looking out at a swimming pool full of girls, I was 20 years old . Saludos

[willg]

I have 50 hrs in a 1939 J3 with a C90, and after watching your videos a couple years ago I pursued a professional career and today I'm fly a Cessna 404 hauling freights for UPS. Thanks Steveo for the inspiring videos!

[flatlandx]

I’m about to leave my house to go take my first cub lesson this morning, watching this gets me stoked!

[scottford]

I was a rusty pilot who had lost his medical and had not flown in sixteen years. Last year I got my medical issues under control and was successful in getting a class III medical. Went back and got a BFR and IPC last fall. Watched your videos to help get reacquainted with ATC radio work and cockpit flow. It must have worked because I just purchased a new (1974) A-36 Bonanza and flew it home this past Monday from Kansas City to its new home in Punta Gorda, FL (KPGD). Yes, that is the same home airport as Baron Pilot. I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your videos. They helped motivate me to get back into aviation. Please keep up the good work. I look forward to more videos.
Scott Ford

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[alancohn]

Now THAT is some real flying!! No electronics, no yaw-damper, no flaps, heck, no doors or windows! I LOVE it. That HAD to be absolutely awesome!! Great video.. The grin on your face was totally ear to ear...

[flyby]

The Piper Cub was my first solo on my birthday back in 2003. Always a special place in my heart. Im sure it made the rest of my training easier. Low and slow baby!

[joerefkin]

I learned to fly in a J-3 on a grass field back in 1964. I flew and soloed from the back seat. When the instructor got out to let me solo (at 16) it seemed like a mile to the front panel and without the instructor, the little J-3 just jumped into the air. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES !

[carlosdanger]

I've always wanted to get flight instruction from a game show host

[N]

WOW Steve...You've just taken me back to 1986! I purchased a restored 1947 J3 Piper Cub N3461K for my Dads last Fathers Day and flew it to Buffalo from Madison, WI. As a corporate pilot in mostly Cessna 310's, 340's and 425's the cub was my biggest challenge! Anticipating this purchase for my dying father I had taken my bi-annual in a Citabria with my only other tail dragger tine being about 15 hours in a B-18. i recall my dad saying at the dinner table over the years of two kinds of Tail Wheel Pilots being...those who have "Ground-Looped and those who have NOT, and since I was the second i didn't want to be the first! An exhilarating experience especially through Chicago TCA back then and the best lesson learned was that grass strips were infinitely more forgiving than pavement! Left buffalo via American Airlines on Friday PM with a brief case full of cash, negotiated a well over market purchase price with three partners and learned to fly it on Saturday. Left Madison, WI bound for Buffalo, NY on Sunday...4 fuel stops a stiff headwind on the NE leg to Erie and a dead battery on my Telex Hand Held (strapped to my leg with a boom mic and push to talk switch velcro'd to the stick) and I was back home just before sunset and able to take my father to the hospital on Monday morning for lung surgery. The very next Sunday was fathers day and I presented Dad with a photo album with pictures and fuel receipts of the adventure... dad never got to fly it but saw it once before his untimely death, age 54. Frank was a 30K ATP Rated Pilot and i could learn something about aviation just standing next to him. I did fly it a few times but a nasty divorce ensued and my brides attorney found it and forced a sale for considerably less than purchase price! just so you know, I'd do it again in a heartbeat as it was quite an adventure ';-) Please share this with your Cub instructor as he seems like a great guy too! Thanks, Mike...

[rcbif]

Just joined an Aeronca Champ club and will be getting my tailwheel endorsement here soon. Excited to get back to stick and rudder after spending the past year transitioning from glider to ASEL in the C150.

[jamesdunlap]

Best airplane on earth! Grew up in a j3

[ridered]

So cool, I remember we had a friend that had a Cub and my dad used to get to use a Champ and we would go fly around for a couple hours. Man those were the days. I miss him. Thank you!

[robertschneider]

My first flying lesson was in a J-3 Cub 56 years ago. Thanks for this video.

[ashleyatze]

I just love the fuel guage indicator sticking out the front. Can't get much simpler than that

[brandoncasperson]

Growing up in Alaska these are the birds I got to fly in. I’ve had a few experiences taking the stick. I would love to become a pilot even at 43.

[njc]

DO NOT STOP until you finish getting your tw endorsement. Nothing better than flying a Cub with open doors on a warm summer evening. Most fun you can have with your clothes on.

[GLICKMIRE]

Congratulations SteveO. Your experience really shows on your first tail-dragger landings. I had quite a learning curve when I went through it as a student pilot learning to land a Cessna 140. But when I got it figured out, my tricycle gear landings improved as well. Two of my required cross-country flights were in that Cessna 140. You don't have to be a high time pilot to fly a taildragger, it just takes a lot more work.

[RobMR]

Saw my first Cubcrafts Carbon Cub in person yesterday. Had to turn around in my car to get back to it. Ended up meeting the pilot and his buddy. Then a cop showed up. It was a really cool experience! I can't wait to get flying again. Just gotta finish paying off bills. Keep these coming, Stevo!!!

[RY]

Was waiting for "Flaps up, yaw damper on"

[mtweiss]

I’ve been a J-3 Cub owner for thirty plus years now. Although I’ve been blessed to own other travel/business planes along the way, including two Cirrus SR22s, a Comanche, a Bonanza and a Saratoga, I’ve always described myself as an “old Cub pilot who is forced to fly business planes from time to time.”