I use the NFlight exterior ball head mount, which I attach into the light bracket on the wing! Works like a charm and you can play around with the angles. I use a GoPro hero 8 to film with, and with the camera turned sideways for that angle I have never had an issue with bugs getting on the lens. Hope that helps you!
I once rode "right seat" in a Tri-Pacer on a flight where we covered exactly 281 "air miles" in exactly 1 hour 55 minutes! Of course we had a bit of help from a tail wind ! So, not actually as "Slow" as you might think! Cheers 🍻 😊
I would take a pacer over a 172 any day of the week. Stop at the fuel pump. There will always be someone wanting to chat. Pull Up in a 172 and your asked what club you belong to?
Remember these being imported to the UK through my local airfield when I was a youngster. If it still carries its original registration any Piper with a G-AP??? or G-AR??? registration through Kidlington. Happy days.
..Loved this short video! Excellent time for a nice puddle-jump flight! You are a lucky young man! Beautiful vintage airplane! My gifts time ever up in a small plane, or any plane, was in a '54 Tri-Pacer. in Oct '55. What an exhilarating experience!! Find for sharing!
I am also a pilot of significant mass, how comfortable is the cabin solo? And with a pax or two? I've been interested in the short wing pipers for awhile now. Never got a chance to fly one tho.
I’m 6’2” and I’m a big guy all around. The cabin solo is very comfortable. I find I have a lot of leg room. I do have a hand brake instead of toe brakes so I’m sure this allows for more leg room. I’ve only ever carried 1 pax at a time as the back seats are quite small and uncomfortable. I’m sure I could replace the seats and it would make things better, but the leg room in the back is small. I’m sure if you had kids they would fit fine in the back, but for now it’s my go to storage area.
Thanks for watching Raymond! I enjoyed my video with my music choice personally, but next time I’ll check in with you to see if it’s good enough music for you too ya boomer!! P.S. I’m not a millennial
It looks like the nose is slightly raised during straight and level flight. This will bleed off a lot of speed. Initial twsting revealed 77 MPH, Once I got things straightened out I got 107 MPH Nominal cruise. ...But I'm a Piddler!
Give me a tripacer over a 172 any day. Pull up to the fuel pump in the tripacer and all of a sudden you have some new friends. Pull up to the fuel pump in a 172 and your asked what club do you belong to?
Such a sweet sunrise I've only gotten to do one hike like that in Maine like 7 years ago. I love the Tri pacer vids any chance you'll be posting more anytime soon?
I had a friend with a tripacer and if I could buy a plane again that’s what it would be. 4 people into ungodly short strips and out again. Not fast but the fun of flying is the journey!
..Ill keep this short..My very first time up in any airplane was in Oct 1955, when my dad, a corporate pilot flying Twin Beech 18s out of NYC/LaGuardia, borrowed a '54 Tri-Pacer w/ the 135hp 4-cyl Lycoming engine, to fly from N.Y. down here to Philadelphia, MS to visit his relatives on his badly needed vacation! We were pulled out of school for 2 wks. Was,one of the coolest, memorable, educational experiences I ever had! Recall him operating a metal crank in the head panel betw the front seats..he told me that was the elevator trim tab operating crank. Had no rudder pedal toe brakes, but a s-shaped stick lever under the l. side instrument panel, that actuated the little main gear brakes. I was 6 yrs old, bro was 5, Mom & Dad in late 30's.Slow, noisy airplane. Reeked of 87oct avgas! Never flew in one since. Flew, learned, piloted, did time in Cessna 152s, 172s till I quit flying in the 1980's. That's my long/short story!! Thnx!
Southbridge MA! Nice video, brought back a lot of memories. Back in the nineties, I was taking lessons at Spencer Airport- Skyhawk 560Z. I will forever remember that time and my first solo (s).
I also had a 55 tripacer. N2959P. back in 1972, 90 hrs SMOH, new cover and paint. Original interior. I love her. Paid $4000.00 but had to sell her one year later for $4500. I rented airplanes after that for another year. 5 years later I became a helicopter pilot, and retired with 10,000 hrs. never flew fixed wing again. However I missed that trypacer !!
Not sure what to tell you Melvin, but you need better taste in music my friend if you think that’s ‘crappy rock music’. Make your own flying video with your own music next time
Hi Kevin. I literally stumbled upon your video quite by accident. Awesome my friend, hope someday I see a video of you flying a nice old rotary in the Alaska bush country. See ya soon! Hank
MY parents owned a C-140, my dad a second one later in life, and neither was fond of the Tripacer for some reason, something about how it handled. It may simply have been a Ford versus Chevy thing, I don't know.
Had 5 different tri pacers, converted 2 to 22/20s, good old planes. Eddie Trimmer is the super pacer man in Willow Alaska, 180hp, extended flaps, fuselage, and wings, 2 18 gal tanks each wing, cub tail feathers. They are a monster performer.
It's really not all that slow. The aircraft manual true airspeed chart shows 132 Kts TAS at 7000 feet. I have found that is pretty accurate when flying my Tri Pacer.
