Commuter's Airplane - Cessna 150
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2020
- Is this the perfect airplane for commuter? The Cessna 150
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"Flying is like meditation"
Truer words can't be said
And meditation is like flying.
@Fly-Away When meditating you let everything go, the focus you have while flying makes you let everything go, which is why he said that.
@Fly-Away What you mentioned isn't meditation; it is worry or obsession.
@Fly-Away You couldn't explain why?
@Fly-Away I think the second definition for transitive verb fits
He has a lot of great habits for someone with under 100 hours of experience. Safe and competent.
Thank you.
I agree. Great personality for a pilot. Humble and careful.
Perfect attitude flying! Saw very little fixation on instruments and feel for the airplane more so than just chasing the speed/decent. Looked like a good stable approach too, perfect!
@@frankarmstrong689 what site was you referring to that had a lot of 150’s for sale when the pandemic hit. I can’t make out what you said. Thank you.
@@thewareagle_8727 Trade A Plane
That is one clean C150!
Not even a nick in the paint on the leading edge of the prop.
I assume he repainted it.
@@jason_v12345 Perks of being your own A&P! It is truly beaut
I admire this guy more than anyone could imagine. He does what he likes for a living. He gets to fly. He can legally do his own maintenance. He is so much luckier than most of the people in this world. I pray he stays in the Avaition world. Good job, buddy.
Thank you
Personally I would suggest that his good fortune is a product of his good choices.
@@stubryant9145,yes - most people assume that good decisions are associated with good outcomes. It very often works that way. Glad someone pointed that out. Thank you.
My recommendation to any new pilot is, get that Instrument Rating, best to have it and not need it, then need it and not have it, even if you never plan to fly IFR, get it.
Like a 2nd amendment for flight survival. :)
or at least practice it in a good sim like msfs or xplane. Trust me it helps irl ALOT! It saved my ass couple of times. Remember to trust your instruments and not your instincts when inadvertantly in IMC conditions
Too bad Sport Pilots can’t get instrument rating. Even just flying for sport, with the LSA’s today you can get some long distance cross country trips.
“Best to have it and not need it, then need it and not have it.” That is from aliens vs predators, we’ll if I remember correctly
It allegedly helps with insurance premiums, too.
Nicest 150 paint I ever seen in my life!
"I use this airplane for health reasons!" Best quote of the year haha That is worth putting on a tee shirt :-)
Flying is Therapy
This is me, but then when I am riding my motorcycle.
That will definitely be my excuse when I present my airplane buying plans to my wife in the near future.
Michael B. Just buy it take her to the hanger and say look what if found it was unwanted and homeless and it followed me home can we keep it lol
I had a 1966 G model. She was a fantastic airplane that served me well for 12 years.
That’s one of the cleanest looking Cessna 150s I have ever seen. Good find. 🤙
Flying Doodles coming back is the highlight of my year so far
Me too. I like all of Bobby's female friends and content on Sailing Doodles, but I originally came here for the flying!
Agreed!
I thought he looked familiar! Thanks for making the connection!
That is really a nice 150! I've got quite a few hours on the 150, most of my training was in a 152, but after I got my license it was cheaper to rent a 150. Later I was working as a Deputy when the Sheriff's Dept got a 150 donated to it and got to fly that a lot while working there. I really liked the 150 for a single person, lots of room that way and it was easy to fly.
I wanted to say thankful for this video. I had put 15hrs into my program and pulled away from it all 8yrs ago. I have dealing with a ton of weight due to family problems I didn’t cause to help my wife that really seems to detaching for some time now. I’m going to start reading and getting back into this again tonight when I done with yard work. Thank you so much👍👍
"I use this airplane for health reasons!"
I love it!
I'm with you brother.
Great attitude toward flying, Frank. You are wise beyond your 100 hours - keep it up. I’m around 14,000 hours now, retired Air Force pilot, currently fly the B-777 and my Cessna 177B “Cardinal”, but my journey started in the mighty Cessna 152.
Thank you.
The moral of the story is
1. Have a friend that owns an airplane.
2. Have a friend that’s a flight instructor
3. Have that friend teach you how to fly in your friends airplane
Best investment advice
So glad to see some Flying Doodles videos again. My primary training was in a 180 HP 1973 C172, with performance exhaust, constant speed prop, and 40 degrees of flaps, but every once in a while I would go up in the school's 1972 C150...it had a 150 HP power plant...good times. One of my first flights as a student was over the San Francisco Bay Area in the C150.
Man that brings back so many good memories. I trained in a few early 80's 152s. Such a fun little plane and a great trainer. Easy to fly but at the same time, you had to stay on top of it to stay straight and level. Great video!!
I am 73 years old now and took my flight training in that same model 150,, when it was new. Cessna N8277F, did a search for it last year and found it, in a junk yard in Salt Lake City, it has been decommissioned but the N number is still on file with the FAA ..Loved that airplane and here is something you will not believe, one day when I was solo flying just north of Las Vegas I pushed it to 13,600 feet about 1,000 feet over it's ceiling, back then there were fewer rules and a lot of uncontrolled air space to play around with, now everything is controlled....I was the school's foul weather pilot, I would hang around the North Las Vegas airport and when one of the other students canceled because of bad weather, I would go up...followed the power lines back to the airport several times, but stayed calm and always made it home with no problems, even flew it in a hail storm one day in S. Cal out of Palm Springs back to Las Vegas. That plane always brought me home with no problem, just stayed calm and flew the plane, nd plotted a course through the mountains following the railroad tracks....
Keep em coming! Love the variety! We all started in these small airplanes so it’s fun to see them featured!
Being a motorcycle rider and a pilot, I concur that flying is WAY safer than riding a motorcycle. Oh, and very impressed with your professionalism for a low time pilot. Great Aircraft! Wish most pilots had your attitude.
Great video, with a great owner and his tidy aircraft. I also own a 150 and love these little Cessna's! I commute to work in mine approx 3-4x/month, I find it very invigorating after a long day at the office to climb in and enjoy a short flight home, especially with the windows open. Thanks for making a video about such a beloved little aircraft, which has been a dependable trainer for so many pilots around the world.
Great seeing you back in aviation. Can’t help but love your other travels but I’m glad you didn’t pull completely away from this. I have a 150 so I really enjoyed this one
Great to see Flying Doodles back! Been enjoying the Sailing Doodles adventures too. This was a fun one. Love the C150. Did my primary in a 150 and eventually a 152. Good video. Good, encouraging conversation between a seasoned pilot and a low hour pilot. As a low hour pilot myself, I took some wisdom from this. Cheers!
One of the nicest 150s Ive laid eyes on.
It's about time! Missed these! However, I've been binge-watching SailingDoodles. So rad.
Same here
I think it’s awesome you’ve been able to accomplish all this in such a short period of time. As for flying and dealing with ATC, the only way to get good at it is do it. We’re not all angry all of the time. In fact, I would venture to say the majority of us take pride in being helpful in any way we can. The thing to remember is we’re working many aircraft at once. So if you call up with the basics: call sign, destination, type, altitude; (that’s the typical order we type you into the computer) you will make our job easier and thus your experience will be better. Keep up the great work look forward to seeing more.
Super stoked to see the Flying Doodles videos back! That is one clean 150. Can always tell pride in ownership.
Makes me want a 150 now...
This was so much fun. I learned in an 82 152 and this brought back a lot of memories. Thanks Bobby for doing this Vid
Bobby u can make a whole series on the 150/152 and i would be the first one to watch them.
Love those little birds.
And me the second, right there ....
And the 172 !!!!
Brings back a lot of great memories for a lot of us, I’m sure. That’s a really clean 🧼 little plane ✈️. Looks well kept and it should be a great 👍 time builder. I’m glad to see you back on flying doodles, but I still don’t miss any sailing doodles. Both channels are great 👍. Thanks for sharing!
Had a ‘66 150 for a number of years in a partnership. Fun, reliable airplane. Good video.
This was Great , Thanks Frank and Flying Doodles!
"Coming in a little high"....yep, power lines will do that for every low time pilot....part of the journey :)
If there was ever a time to bury power lines it might be the ones in front of a runway!
Better high and fast than low and "electrified"! 😃
Cessna 150 great little airplane
That 150 looked like a nice clean bird. You can always tell when a A&P or IA owns a aircraft. Good video, and good piloting!!
I started out as a mechanic in the military. Later they put me on flight status and I got airsick all the time. Then they swapped out one of the pilots (not supposed to) and made me fly it so that the movements were mine. That improved my ETP (elasped time to puke) by about 50%. One day a pilot said to me, I used to be just like you. It took learning to fly to get over it. I went out to the local airport and started in a 150 but right afterwards a guy approached me with "Maintenance Share" for sale in corporation of a 172 with 9 other guys. They would pay me 2 hours a month wet but I had to take the hours every month plus it was quite a bit cheaper anyway than the 150. I bought it and soloed out in a 172 instead. For me, needles talk to me and a sectional does not. I got lost on my private pilot check ride. It was winter and I was looking for a lake and missed it because it was iced over and snow covered. The check pilot said, so now what are you going to do? Can you find your way back to the airport? I said yes, but I would use the radios. He said show me? So dialed in a VOR and an NDB for cross. He said where are you now? He had me go all different places and I could tell him where we were exactly. When I got back I was sure I busted it. He talked to me about the lake I missed and he saw it and said I flew right over it. He passed me. He said, "You did very well under the hood, and you knew exactly where you were all the time with the radios. I'd rather see that than being good on a sectional." As it turned out, out of 10 guys, only 2 of us flew it regularly, and the other guy only a couple hours a month. We had an attorney who would take it 1 week each summer. The other guys would seldom fly it and some talk how they were going to get checked out again one of these days. However, like him, I wasn't interested in the plane looking like a rag, the wheel pants weren't on and found them broke and had to fix them, the cowling, paint, and I had to fix the radios every few months, and I had jumper wires in them because the traces were burned off the boards. At the first meeting I told them I was living at the airport. They laughed and said, "We love what you are doing with it. What do you need?" I told them 6 hours, and when I get ahead of it, I'll cut it down to 2 again. They were very happy with that. Now I had to fly it at least 6 hours a month plus a busy schedule flying with aircraft in the military. I called a meeting and to tell them I needed to buy some things for the aircraft. After coming to order the attorney piped up and said, "OK, what do WE need to buy for YOUR airplane?" I told them I want to put in EGT to keep the plugs from fouling all the time, and that I had 1/3rd of the cost in new radios in parts that are hard to get for the old radios and they are mess inside where I've replaced components and had to wire them because the traces were burned in half on the circuit boards and they are almost unfixable anymore and I wanted new radios and encoding transponder. With 6 hours a month, I started using it like a car and take it whenever I wanted to go somewhere. The problem with that is I seldom went the same place twice so every airport was new and being lost in space and in terror at trying to figure out runways and where I should be was not fun. I switched to L-Charts and Jeppesen Approach Plates. What relief. It was a different conversation with ATC and I would ask to practice an instrument approach at the destination so that becomes a different conversation also and actually easier. Nobody is telling me to report at some local landmark I know nothing about. Moreover, you ALWAYS have the correct airport and ALWAYS lined up in the correct runway. I also used it to bring mechanics with me to bases. After that I went to the academy and on to "fright" school. In "fright" school the IP would say to me while we were being vectored around, do you know where you are right now? I would then and they would just shake their because I could describe it in detail exactly where I was. He was just as amazed at how helpless I was VFR with sectionals or tacticals. For me, the transition to IFR during flight was a relief. I would have made a terrible A-10 pilot. I wonder how many new pilots would find navigating IFR is a ton easier navigating and in ATAs and thus not look at getting the IFR rating as some future event. Even under VFR conditions, your head is out of the cockpit more because you aren't trying to figure out where you are. (Of course later things got a ton easier to know where you were at all times)
I love the electronics that are so affordable today and will probably get into flying something small again. After been there, done that, and pride fades, I realize that it is actually more fun to be small and be able to fly when I want, where I want, and with whom I want. I always liked the Mooney. It's light on the controls, an efficient and predictable wing, fast for only a couple hundred horsepower, and efficient and cheap to own so you don't feel guilty flying it. Heck, even an IFR 172 again is real enough to travel places with friends.
That's was so smooth Flight and the weather was awesome, landing is great
I learned to fly in a 150. The great thing about the 150 is that it's slow enough for a primary trainer. In it, nothing happens too fast for a beginning pilot, and that's what you want.
I want to learn to fly
I did also even tho I never finished I had 14hr solo.
After a while I rarely ever used and flaps. But did have to come in hot. I could alway land better that way
Trained with Felts Field Aviation in Spokane, WA with their 150, it was a very nice airplane to fly! Thanks for sharing!
That's a great looking little 150!
I learned to fly in the Cessna 150/152 back in 1996 in Arizona.. flying a bigger “Cessna” now, the Boeing 737 🛫
Beautiful bird and gorgeous country/vies!
That’s a sweet little airplane. I’m a big guy and my instructor was 6’6” and about 200lbs. When I was taking lessons in the hot humid summer of 1991 in upstate NY, I was amazed our 150 got off the ground. Such a great trainer and overall airplane.
What a great attitude and approach to flying/owning! Good for you young man! And though I own/fly a ‘46 Champ, I used to fly a 150 and loved it! Best wishes!
Fantastic video guys! Really showcases the capabilities of both flying and airplane ownership and the realistic possibilities of both - all in the venerable C150.
Such a gorgeous C150, I love to see people putting some love into this beautiful aircraft
My first solo was in a C150. Fond memories. 👍💞
She looks great!
This is so great. I'm glad to see that you go flying with guys who have less than the $250,000 super nice planes. I really enjoyed this pilot. Low time, but he's doing great. Rockwall has the "hump" in the middle of the runway. I've flown into it several times.
Nice fun flight in the good ole 150! You handle the gentle plane well.I've had a lot a time in these from primary to instrument training.Even did a portion of the commercial just for the air work! I must admit though,when training in actual IFR,the 152 didn't climb fast enough for me. Fortunately,the weather wasn't inclement or very low.At any rate,thanks for taking us along for a ride and invoking some fond memories.
I had my first solo in a 150. Great memories! That’s a good lookin bird you have there 👍
One of the greatest planes. Had a 150L and loved it 👍
Oh my God that brought back memories my dad had a Cessna and I miss him and I missed the plane
Your content makes me so happdy during these dark times in aviation.
That is a very nice funny plane!! My sister in law husband use to have one!!! I miss that plane sooo much!! Good job Bobby!!!
Great attitude! Love your plane. It’s a real nice looking plane.
I’ve done some work in that area. Always cool to see places you know. Beautiful 150! Great video
Wonderful life view and spirit. Makes me considering, again, to own my own plane.
Frank is a great gentleman! Awesome flight!
I bought my 58 150 N5549E in 74. It has taken me all over the Country. Have had two engines in it. Still flying fine. Your plane is beautiful. Mine has 40 degrees of flaps and makes a big difference. Have fun.
Big fan! Live the videos, keep em coming! Thanks for the great aviation content!
Back in the ‘80s, I had a half ownership in a nice 1975 C152, N67628. It was the plane I learned to fly in. We eventually sold it to acquire a share in a 172. I got the task, really the privilege, of delivering our little sweetheart to the buyer. Early on a crisp morning in January I departed Evansville, IN, EVV and flew it solo to Angleton, TX, Brazoria County airport. Three gas and toilet stops on the way, arriving just before sunset. Loved that little plane. I sure hated to let go of her.
Absolutely beautiful!
Glad to hear you say that you’re still in training. I have over 14,000 hrs in heavy jets and I’m still in training!
First off congratulations.. it's a great feeling to on a Cessna 150. awesome airplane anybody can own an airplane Hangar it.... the worst part about owning an airplane is finding a good mechanic glad that you can work on your own..... awesome looking Cessna.
Thanks for the very timely post (for me)! My dad is flirting with starting on his pilot's license when I do, and I think I may be able to talk him into going in on a 150/152 so we can get our training done, and then we could go in on something bigger, or I could get a Kitfox 4+ and he could get whatever he would want. This really flipped the switch in my mind, I hadn't really considered anything other than a 172 (or a kitfox, if I could find a instructor in my area that would be willing to instruct in one).
Nice airplane! I flew the 150 for my private pilot's license in 1974. Great trainer and just fun to fly!
I learn't to fly in a Cessna 152, great little airplane. They also spin amazingly well.
I always equate, on average, safety of small aircraft to, on average, motorcycles. But, a large portion of motorcycle accidents are younger adults on sport bikes, and similar a lot of aircraft accidents are tied to just a few unnecessary risk (hot dogging, IMC, running out of gas, overweight/balance etc). Fly VFR days, get gas, keep it light in a well maintained aircraft like that nice 150 and those statistics are way-way better than the average. Thanks for sharing the flight!
As someone who's been hit more than once on a motorcycle here in Seattle I agree flying a 150 is by far more safe. Especially where you're flying, look at all that beautiful greenery to land in! Gorgeous
Nice video and big passion. Would be glad to see a episode with a long time Glasair III owner. One of the oldest for example is Ken Johnson (there are lot of more). In 1993 he built N640KJ. Really awesome machine.
Thank you for telling me about the Wing X app for VFR flying. Pretty cool app
At about 10 minutes into the video I heard a radio call for Weisner runway 18....I landed there yesterday....small world. Great video!
the plane is very pretty nice paint
Thanks for showing this aircraft
"Wait, this is not school, this is fun". Bingo you just stated the key to education. Even better if you can blend what is "fun" into a valuable and marketable skill. Very nice video, thank you!
Awesome and neat plane! Beautiful flying...
Being an A&P cut his annual cost way down with all the parts out there.
Has to have an IA to do an annual but he can fix any discrepancies the IA finds and have the annual done again. A&P's can do 100 hour.
We should always be a pilot in training! :) Aviation quote of the year!
Missed the flying half of your Doodles. Nice plane. Great Video as always.
Frank has a beautiful Airplane, sounds like he found a good one, around 3000 hours total time, sounds like this one never spent any time in a trainer fleet getting the carp beat out of it. Frank said something that struck me that as a pilot with about 100 hours that he's still a pilot in training, Any good pilot no matter the number of hours is still a pilot in training if he wants to remain a good pilot.
Proficiency is key. My instructor told me, that I will never be as sharp as the day of my checkride. Everything must be to precision. I passed my checkride, and two weeks later, loaded up the wife and 3 kids, in an Archer II, and flew round trip, from Lafayette, IN, to Anacortes, WA, logging a total of 40 hrs, and 4,200 miles. This was back in the last century, before GPS. Most fun ever!
Great landing. Enjoyed this one. Good luck to Frank.
Thank you. Another great video.
Glad to have found your channel. I received my Private in 1978 from Addison A/P.
Bought a 69 Grumman Yankee in 1981 with 842 total time on a 2000 hour TBO, 0235. Kept it till 2003 when I sold it in Florida, having moved in 1988. I am still flying today, but am still a rather low time pilot with 542 hours. Flown to Oshkosh twice, from Aerocountry in the mid 80's. You have to do it at least once!
Now retired in south Florida, I am thinking about building my own experimental, or ultralight. Still have an active class III.
You are doing good. Keep it up, and never find yourself calling out, "Deadstick"!
Pilot to pilot question, "What do you call the most useless altitude there is, when you are faced with an engine out emergency"?
What a cool dude and great story. -Thanks
Thank you.
Nice! what a great story!
Beautiful day for flying
And the editing and camera angles are superb.
Very nice airplane. Frank seems like a nice and humble guy.
Great looking airplane. I have had two 150s and used one to commute. Great simple airplane. The plane sounds like its going to need a starter sprage clutch soon and need a radio filter on the alternator.
I have the alternator filter on order and will be upgrading to a push-to-start Sky-Tec starter.
Frank seems like a great guy. I’d fly with him any day. He’s got a great plane as well. Something about this episode ranks it up there with your best, can’t quite put my finger on it though.
It’s Frank, I’d fly with him or have him work on my airplane anytime.
Awesome commuters fly over all the time ❤❤
Another great episode.
I logged plenty of hours in a “one-filthy”. Fun little planes, but one of the 150s in our training fleet had long-range tanks. Flying out of Edmonton, Alberta on a hot day, with low density altitude, that plane could barely stagger into the air. I vividly remember climbing in with my instructor back in 1978 and we just couldn’t get lift - neither of us were overweight, we just had flight bags in the back, full-to-the-brim tanks, and we had to fly between skyscrapers downtown because we were getting about 3 FPS climb in the hot weather and high altitude. I’d love to get flying again - I was a CFI of a soaring club in the 1980s - but I have eye damage and switched to sailboats. I came here from Sailing Doodles (and the lovely Taylor). LanceH
Great plane, good flying.
Great paint job!
Very cool. Been talking to my buddy about getting a Cessna 150, or 152 - perhaps a 172 since that's what he's training on. Either or- I'm buying, he's flying.
Bobby, Living the LIFE!!!
Great video with a safe pilot 👍
This was a great video and makes me want a 150
At 100 hours "I consider myself a pilot in training"
I have 1000 hours. I consider myself a pilot in training.
I've been an A&P 20 years, I still consider myself a mechanic in training.