Good points. I've also noticed empty weights creep up as you get newer. I still have an H and a K on my maybe list. But they are both far away. Tell me more about the gear difference. I have a 60 x2500 private strip. that is very smoooooth. Lunch at another grass runway is not nearly as smooth. But that's another story. Jim
The difference in gear? The tube gear has a much more marshmellowy feel. Kinda wallows around compared to the flat gear. When we do our Alvord pilgrimage, we go into Denio Junction for eats and fuel.
Here is Denio Junction on AirNav. [
airnav.com] Clumps of weeds and sagebrush seperated by soft sand. We've landed there several times in our straight geared 150 without thinking twice. This year, with the tube gear, it felt, and sounded, like we were going to snap the gear off. The way it flexed and snapped back definitely got our attention. But, nothing was damaged. And we are talking extremely rough here. So maybe not the best of useful examples.
