Tailwheel Tuesday! Citabria Facts & Walk Around
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- Опубліковано 31 жов 2016
- Tailwheel Tuesday!!
Starting off our new series with a tour/walk around of our own 1975 Citabria 7GCAA. We describe some of the features of the aircraft and explain why we love flying and teaching in this airplane!!
If you are interested in getting your tailwheel endorsement or taking one of our advanced spin recovery, unusual attitude recovery, or basic aerobatics courses, then check out our website for more info!
Wish you were in Arizona….nice Bird!👍🏼
We feel the same way right about January 1st! :P
My favorite taildragger. Unfortunately where I live right now you can’t even find a Cessna 140 or Piper Cub to fly. Nobody rents tail draggers out here.
wow...nice looking Citabria mate. I've just started my tail wheel/aerobatic endorsement in a Citabria after learning to fly in a LSA. Look forward to checking out the rest of your videos.
Phenomenal!.
Nice 7GCAA. I fly both that and a 7ECA on a regular basis. Very sweet planes.
Absolutely! 7ECA is hard to be on a nice cool evening!
Beautiful machine, thanks! Went to our site, well run operation you have there. I’m in Brazil now but raised on a farm southeast of Anita! Nice videos.
I begin flight school this Saturday and did my discovery flight in a Citabria, the young instructor let me fly most of the time and it was a very nice little plane! I guess I will be seeing a lot more of it now that I will be starting flight school:)
A mighty fine airplane... I fly it and it is wonderful...mmm.
Beautiful plane!
I bet you get a lot of compliments in person.
Thanks! It's a working airplane, so there are plenty of flaws, but we enjoy being able to utilize it in our training program!
I like airplanes.
Thanks for making this video and beautiful airplane! I am seriously considering purchasing a Citabria 7GCAA in the near future. So this walk around was very beneficial. A few questions if you do not mind. Did you replace the wooden spar with a metal one when you restored the aircraft? Also, you mention 160 HP for the engine. From my understanding, the original engines in a '75 would be a 0-320-A2B and were rated at 150 HP. Did you replace the engine with a newer O-320-B2B that is standard in the '97+, 160 HP, version? If so, why?
Mo powa babeh
Think I'll check my log from '77 , might have flown this great plane........... Fun to fly.... looks really nice ! needs some fat tires.
That'd be pretty cool! Let us know! And yes... some 30" bush wheels would look REALLY nice on it...
DARN CLOSE ...The number sounded close... but..... It was N1882G out of Compton , Calif. ... sure brought back some great memories of my short tail dragger time....... I'm a Flying Cowboy fan and I just think a little bit bigger tire would make that plane look AWSOME ... It still looks GREAT as IS !
Have fun ... wish it were mine. Robert Lafnear
....and a GA7 Cougar in the background. Nice!
Got my multi commercial instrument rating in a Cougar in 1991. Tail wheel endorsement in a Citabria in 1995. Both fine aircraft.
A gabbler for a CFI increases a student's workload.
It would be good in your UA-cam info or your web site to tell us your home airport or city and state. I guess you may be in Iowa?
Yes, in Iowa! Will update soon, thanks!
I am a student pilot who has flown many Cessna aircraft with tricycle gear. My instructor says that I can start learning the Citabria that my school has in the summer. Any suggestions?
Ye, start :)
Looking forward to it!
I’m going to passenger in a ‘75 7ECA in two weeks. I’m so excited! I have a stupid question. Your plane looks like a skin-on-frame design, yes? What is the skin made of? Canvas?
You'll definitely enjoy it! It is actually a fabric called Ceconite, and is very durable especially once primed and painted. Thanks for the question!
Walter Aviation Thanks for the answer! My flight was indeed thrilling, can’t wait to do it again! I’m hooked!
Volume Please!
Sounds like a gopro with the case still on or something. If the audio was better I could actually hear what he is saying. Cool plane though.
On average how long does it usually take to get the endorsement on a tailwheel plane? I do not live near you, but might consider getting it one day. Right now I am looking to get current, BFR; for vfr and Ifr. The only thing that would keep me from taveling from Birmingham, Al. to your location is justifying the added expense, but I like your organization, and might even consider using you as a buy broker once I get current on finding a suitable mooney or beachcraft. Thanks...
Took me
Real Info starts at 2:05
I really enjoyed the video, but the audio was awful. A lavalier mic would have helped a lot for the narrator.
The sound is very low...not easy to hear what you are saying..
Very ugly jowls front..much beautiful beak had 7gcbc model of 1970..this new models are front very ugly.
Looks good to me, I'd sure fly it.
Lol are you blind? The citabria was and still is a beautiful plane.
@@dpokorzynski I wouldn't necessarily call it a beautiful airplane. At least not comparatively speaking, when lined up with the well known beauties.
It's an honest airplane that makes most people smile. Assuming they have a soul, or a pilots licence.
I have about 100hrs in Citabrias: 7ECA, GCBC, SuperD. They fly well enough, but are real turds if you try to fly them to the limits. The GCBC lands at least 10mph faster than a super cub. Takes twice the takeoff roll. The 7ECA and the Champ for that matter are very over weight and over built and generally feel sluggish in pitch and roll compared to a J3. (I flew my ppl check-ride in the Cub, best decision, ever).
The decathlon does okay as aerobatics with the CS prop and better ailerons. I've only looped an ECA and a GCBC inches each. The ECA is very underpowered and over dragged for loops, but it's fun to roll. The GCBC with a climb prop you hit engine redline and beyond before you have enough speed, the prop is an absolute airbrake at 130mph entry speed so as soon as you pull you lose about 10mph out of nowhere, round off the top of the loop just hanging there inverted well below it's stall speed. Unless you pull 4+Gs maybe. But a normal comfortable 3g pull doesn't do it in that airplane. Lol.
They are fun, built like tanks, fly like dump trucks, are honest and forgiving. Not pretty.