Lacking an enclosed cockpit, that's generally where they are. It's likely to keep it away from the stuff in the cockpit that would interfere magnetically. To be honest though, it's pretty useless so it really doesn't matter where it is!
@@scotabot7826 it's very short coupled and can be a bit of a handful if you're not on top of it during landing. It can do mild acro but I don't do more than aggressive lazy-8s. I have some S-2 time but most of my tailwheel/aerobatic time is in Super Decathlons and almost all of it in the backseat.
@@TheTVPilot Back seat is good though. My dad and I used to fly a 75 Bellanca Citabria, and he always flew it from the back seat, with me in the front. I was about 10/11 years old and pretend he wasn't back there. Ha Ha. What I would really like to build is a Steen Skybolt!
@@scotabot7826 that's just it, yeah. Teaching acro from the back made me pretty comfortable landing blind in the three point (which is every landing in the Smith). No real way to prepare for the short coupled-ness as the S-2 is long and heavy in comparison. I would imagine an S-1 is similar to the Smith. I found that if I carry power all the way to the ground, it's much easier to handle. Skybolts are very nice too!
Does RU-vid automatically add music when an aviation video is uploaded? I've never met a person that doesn't flip out against when the subject is brought up. There is no way pilot folks could possibly think that music would be better than engine, ATC, wind noise, etc...yet a great many have it. Maybe RU-vid pays more for views with music over a P51 low level flyby.
It was runway 09 at Rockcliffe, Ontario, which has a displaced threshold. That runway originally extended another several hundred feet west (beyond the fence and beyond the current roadway I fly over on the approach) and that part of the pavement is in bad shape (hence the displaced threshold). I don't know why they marked it with an X which you've rightly pointed out denotes a closed runway. It was only the only one applied and only on that unserviceable part of tarmac. My guess is that's why they applied it, even if incorrectly. Having based the airplane there for the last 6 years, I can firmly say the runway is open and serviceable and used daily.
