This is the first time I have flown one of these
since I was fourteen or fifteen. I forgot how bad it
was.

Horrible handling airplane. Terribly un coordinated.

Don't learn in it unless you can afford to spend twice as much time
and money. The flying skills you learn are then useless for flying any
other
type of modern aircraft.

However it is fun and challenging :)

Paul Lamar


When I bought that 180, I had no tail dragger time (but probably 1000 hours
in the  Bonanza I sold by then).  So, went to get some time in Super Cub.
Nothing felt right primarily because it had HEAL brakes instead of toe
brakes.   Only made couple touch and goes when instructor wanted to go eat.
He got drunk, so end of session.  Had to leave for Baltimore next day
commercial to pick up 180.  Much easier to land with toe brakes.  Never
learned how to do wheel landing for two years.

Either stay out of crosswinds or make sure your instructor shows you how to
do wheel landing.  They are easy but opposite to what you do with the stick
in a normal landing and it feels funny for awhile.  Three point in no
crosswind is easy.  Just like a full stall type landing with tricycle.  So,
learn wheel landings.  If you can wheel land and have good brakes you can
land in same crosswind as tricycle high wing.  Maybe not in as bad a x-wind
as low wing Bonanza though.

Van Vannoy