So how was it?
Almost as good as Piako's big Pawnee. Certainly nowhere near as loud.
Take off roll was a little slow to get going, but once we were up to speed everything else progressed like a normal tow. If I had had water on things would have been a little trickier...although the wing runner barely took 2 steps...
From the feel of things it performed better than our club's small Pawnee and similar to the Cub.
Have a look at the climb rate on tow - 5 knots.
It's worth noting that the little yellow tow-plane was also dragging a Twin Astir into the air every 30 minutes or so, all day long.
They towed the Twin down from Auckland on Friday on 23 liters of gas...whereas a Pawnee would have used 123 liters...perhaps.
The way of the future...
OK so what was the day like...fairly average. I over called it a bit. It got better and better but by 4pm bases were only 4000ft and climbs of 3-4 knots. 1 land-out that I heard of.
3 hours of practise...practising sitting still for 3 hours...
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