LEARNING TO FLY! - First Tailwheel Lesson in a 1940 J3 Cub! 

Hello I have many hours on the type. I lost my first Rey ban sunglasses looking out at a swimming pool full of girls, I was 20 years old . Saludos

I have 50 hrs in a 1939 J3 with a C90, and after watching your videos a couple years ago I pursued a professional career and today I'm fly a Cessna 404 hauling freights for UPS. Thanks Steveo for the inspiring videos!

I’m about to leave my house to go take my first cub lesson this morning , watching this gets me stoked!

I was a rusty pilot who had lost his medical and had not flown in sixteen years. Last year I got my medical issues under control and was successful in getting a class III medical. Went back and got a BFR and IPC last fall. Watched your videos to help get reacquainted with ATC radio work and cockpit flow. It must have worked because I just purchased a new (1974) A-36 Bonanza and flew it home this past Monday from Kansas City to its new home in Punta Gorda, FL (KPGD). Yes, that is the same home airport as Baron Pilot. I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your videos. They helped motivate me to get back into aviation. Please keep up the good work. I look forward to more videos. Scott Ford N222WP

Now THAT is some real flying!! No electronics, no yaw-damper, no flaps, heck, no doors or windows! I LOVE it. That HAD to be absolutely awesome!! Great video.. The grin on your face was totally ear to ear...

I learned to fly in a J-3 on a grass field back in 1964. I flew and soloed from the back seat. When the instructor got out to let me solo (at 16) it seemed like a mile to the front panel and without the instructor, the little J-3 just jumped into the air. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES !

My first flying lesson was in a J-3 Cub 56 years ago. Thanks for this video.

The Piper Cub was my first solo on my birthday back in 2003. Always a special place in my heart. Im sure it made the rest of my training easier. Low and slow baby!

I just love the fuel guage indicator sticking out the front. Can't get much simpler than that

Just joined an Aeronca Champ club and will be getting my tailwheel endorsement here soon. Excited to get back to stick and rudder after spending the past year transitioning from glider to ASEL in the C150.

Growing up in Alaska these are the birds I got to fly in. I’ve had a few experiences taking the stick. I would love to become a pilot even at 43.

I've always wanted to get flight instruction from a game show host

I’ve been a J-3 Cub owner for thirty plus years now. Although I’ve been blessed to own other travel/business planes along the way, including two Cirrus SR22s, a Comanche, a Bonanza and a Saratoga, I’ve always described myself as an “old Cub pilot who is forced to fly business planes from time to time.”

So cool, I remember we had a friend that had a Cub and my dad used to get to use a Champ and we would go fly around for a couple hours. Man those were the days. I miss him. Thank you!

WOW Steve...You've just taken me back to 1986! I purchased a restored 1947 J3 Piper Cub N3461K for my Dads last Fathers Day and flew it to Buffalo from Madison, WI. As a corporate pilot in mostly Cessna 310's, 340's and 425's the cub was my biggest challenge! Anticipating this purchase for my dying father I had taken my bi-annual in a Citabria with my only other tail dragger tine being about 15 hours in a B-18. i recall my dad saying at the dinner table over the years of two kinds of Tail Wheel Pilots being...those who have "Ground-Looped and those who have NOT, and since I was the second i didn't want to be the first! An exhilarating experience especially through Chicago TCA back then and the best lesson learned was that grass strips were infinitely more forgiving than pavement! Left buffalo via American Airlines on Friday PM with a brief case full of cash, negotiated a well over market purchase price with three partners and learned to fly it on Saturday. Left Madison, WI bound for Buffalo, NY on Sunday...4 fuel stops a stiff headwind on the NE leg to Erie and a dead battery on my Telex Hand Held (strapped to my leg with a boom mic and push to talk switch velcro'd to the stick) and I was back home just before sunset and able to take my father to the hospital on Monday morning for lung surgery. The very next Sunday was fathers day and I presented Dad with a photo album with pictures and fuel receipts of the adventure... dad never got to fly it but saw it once before his untimely death, age 54. Frank was a 30K ATP Rated Pilot and i could learn something about aviation just standing next to him. I did fly it a few times but a nasty divorce ensued and my brides attorney found it and forced a sale for considerably less than purchase price! just so you know, I'd do it again in a heartbeat as it was quite an adventure ';-) Please share this with your Cub instructor as he seems like a great guy too! Thanks, Mike...

“Kodiak on floats”. 😏 What you’ve got is two ends of the GA spectrum sharing a chunk of airspace. Our local airport had a drive in/fly in breakfast, and it was fun to see my friend’s ‘52 J3 parked next to an R44 helicopter and a shiny turbine ag aircraft. I bet the Kodiak pilot smiled when he saw the yellow cub.

Was waiting for "Flaps up, yaw damper on"

@13:35 GpPro drone shots on final were beautiful. Reminds me of the movie Always.

Whilst I dead set can't wait for a new Tango Bravo VLOG each few weeks, I am never disappointed by these general aviation experience videos. So well filmed and edited. Thanks SteveO.

I’ve got my first j3 flight tomorrow. So excited.

I was holding my breath over those trees!

You keep adding more and more drone footage and yet I still want more drone footage. Love it.

DO NOT STOP until you finish getting your tw endorsement. Nothing better than flying a Cub with open doors on a warm summer evening. Most fun you can have with your clothes on.

It’s funny because I asked Jason at sun n fun when this video was coming out, he said Friday!! It was nice to meet you there too!

True "flying by the seat of your pants". Loved it! Thanks.

You are having far to much fun Steveo. Love the seat of the pants flying. Back to the old skills Steveo.

Saw my first Cubcrafts Carbon Cub in person yesterday. Had to turn around in my car to get back to it. Ended up meeting the pilot and his buddy. Then a cop showed up. It was a really cool experience! I can't wait to get flying again. Just gotta finish paying off bills. Keep these coming, Stevo!!!

So awesome!!! Never landed a tail dragger. Fist flight today. So stoked!!

This really took me back to the days when I used to do Glider towing with a Super Cub! Great fun.

Great flying, I bet you had a blast flying that cub... great video and drone footage too...

Awesome! Looked like so much fun!👍🏽

Great video! Kudos to the drone pilot.

Congrats Steveo. I love the CUB. One of my favourite RC models as well a a favourite on my Simulator. Calm days at our flying field always brings out the CUBS. We LOVE them.

Congratulations SteveO. Your experience really shows on your first tail-dragger landings. I had quite a learning curve when I went through it as a student pilot learning to land a Cessna 140. But when I got it figured out, my tricycle gear landings improved as well. Two of my required cross-country flights were in that Cessna 140. You don't have to be a high time pilot to fly a taildragger, it just takes a lot more work.

Loved it! True story: Back in the 1960s I attempted to join the RAF as a pilot. I failed: I could not read the bottom line of the test chart with my left eye. Despondent, I left RAF station Biggin Hill and wandered onto the airfield before catching a bus home due about 1 hour later. There was an air experience business using a de Havelland Tiger Moth. I had the princely amount of ten shillings in my pocket which was not enough for a joy ride. After explaining why I was so down in the mouth the pilot said "Ten shillings eh? OK - jump in". He did not hand over control, but that remains one of my best and most memorable flights. [ten shillings? - google it].

If you have the slightest interest in aviation, and this doesn't make you want to fly more than anything else in the world, check your pulse - you may have expired. 😁 This one was ALOT of fun, Steve! Thanks for sharing. Nice job, btw - that must've been a welcome change from the daily grind. Great music, AGAIN, btw!! Sweet Cub, too Jason!

Beautiful plane. They conjure up a lot of dreams.

I love the cub. I did my first solo like 3 months ago

Stevo it was great seeing you the other day in Staniel Cay. I was flying the other whit and blue caravan. Blue skies and Tailwinds.

About time you started flying "real" airplanes, Stevo! Congratulations.

Fabulous - looking forward to your first tail-wheel solo video!

Reminds me of learning to fly in a motorfalke which is a powered sailplane. No engine is even more fun!

Welcome to the awesome world of J3 flying! Mine has a non-sensitive altimeter so no Kollsman window to set barometer. Just roll the face around to match the field elevation to the needle. Mine doesn't have a ball (slip/skid) indicator either...all seat of the pants. Looks like you enjoyed it! You can hardly get too high on approach. A J3 can really drop on an approach, especially with a no throttle full slip! Jason is awesome as well.

This was so well done that I got sweaty palms and I also had to tell myself to release the death grip!

Best airplane on earth! Grew up in a j3

I learned to fly in a similar plane, Fleet Canuk, mid 40's vintage, side by side seating.

Thank you for signing my poster at Sun n fun on Saturday. 😀

Stevo, the intro music “Learning to Fly” is one of the coolest so far. Pretty cool, man! Keep up the great work!

Crazy cool ! Looks like it would be simple.....anything but. The excitement on your face says it all !

Hey Stevo, great you get to fly the J3. I did my tailwheel endorsement in a 1946 J3, it enevitably puts a smile on your face low level on a sunny warm evening. And I absolutely love this intro, made my day!

I got my tail wheel in a j3 must say best experience ever especially in St. Pete

Great video Steveo. The added drone footage was a unique perspective.

Steveo, if I could afford to hire a pilot, you would be it. Why? I hate hard landings. You grease more landings than any pilot I’ve seen. Doesn’t matter what plane you’re flying. Good job- that Cub looks like a blast to fly.

SteveO htat is awesome. I've been working on my tailwheel too in a j-3 Cub. Having a blast!

Wow, It's like the Superbowl with your two favorite teams playing! Great to see my two favorite pilots I follow here on youtube!! Woo-Hoo!!

My first airplane ride was in one of these on my 9th birthday 1946 Middlesboro, Kentucky

Would love to see more videos of you training! Let’s me, a humble student pilot, see the pros even have a thing or two to learn! 😉

loved the droneshot on the 2nd landing !

Draggin' it low-n-slow! Nice ride.

Great video and love the drone shots. Brings back memories. I flew one in 1981 for a creel survey counting fisherman on one of my lakes. You didn’t mention that high tech gas gauge.

First plane I soloed and finally got my sport rating in!! Love that aircraft! Enjoy the slow flight.

great flight, my very first lesson in a aviation was that plane, also grass strip.

What a great experience! Love those Cubs.

Jason and his company are solid. They've helped me pass my initial and recurrent Part 107. Great people and support. Oh, and another great video Steveo.

Fantastic! I've always figured you'd be a great stick and rudder pilot, based on watching our videos. You proved that smoothly and easily with that Cub. I'll bet folding money that you had a great big grin stuck on your face for at least an hour after landing! Sure was fun to watch you have such fun in such a basic aircraft. It doesn't get much more basic does it.

Steveo, I must be awesome to fly a plane that lets you really feel like your flying a plane. Great job, lots of fun to watch, as well. Cheers, Rik Spector

Nice job, Steveo. You had a good instructor and a sweet ride. Now just imagine flying one of those as a Army Air Forces close-air support aircraft during World War II. Whew, those guys were hardcore!

So great to see Jason flying with you Steveo! Got his ground school book from him on your recommendation... it is great! I won't ever get to license again due to losing my health certification after a stroke, but it's so great to be on board and riding along wth you guys... brings back GREAT memories for me! Keep up the great videos. Always look forward to them! Cheers! ~Chris

Jason did a great job at instructing! His voice reminds me of a seasoned ATC guy or a Radio Personality! Haha! Really cool video.

Simple is fun! Flying by the seat of your pants looking out the window with the door and window open!

Brings back a lot of fond memories of learning to fly with my Dad!

I just flew a J4 85hp from Portland Oregon to Ohio, took us about 7 days of flying, 10 days total due to bad weather

Great video, love the Cub! There's was a fantastic TV series fairly recently here in the UK called "Flying Accross Britain" where Arthur Williams flies his J-3 Cub accross the country, covering aviation history at a ton of different locations. Worth checking out if you can find it available to watch.

Brings back memories of my dad and I flying a piper cub down in Texas. Pretty noisy without a headset with that strong wind blowing by that opened door. You’ll have fun flying a 180 tail dragged if ya ever get the chance. Ya did a great job for flying a cub for the first time Steveo. Keep them vlogs coming.

Low & Slow absolutely nothing like it. Great job

Yay!! I got my wings on a 1950’s PA18 (I-LABO) back in 1990... really miss flying those planes

Congratulations, very nice videography and editing of content, instructor friend is also first class with his tutorial communication care for you and competence. old enough to know, and your young enough to be hip and have a relaxed style.

Nothing like stick and rudder flying...or needle ball and airspeed in IMC...pure joy!...Try that sometime Steveo!

the little "CUB" on all the instruments is dope... 600lbs?!?...wow, when you figure the weight of that wooden prop alone...

I learned a lot from Jason and his online ground. Followed him right up to commercial and currently.

Great video, nothing's better than flying a J3! I like the blending of your and Jason's videography styles. Bummer he stuck you up front,much better visibility from the rear. 65MPH is a bit hot in a Cub, normal approach should be 50-60 MPH

Oh dude you gotta sit in the back!! Awesome video. I’ve never flown a true J3, only the PA11 cub special which is soloed from the front. Always wanted to try flying from the back. I bet in some aspects it’s easier

I cant believe I havnt seen this one yet... Good job guys!

Oh, man! You let me re-live my tailwheel training in a Citabria today! Thanks! Fantastic video! Wish I'd done it in a Cub, though!

One of the aviation world’s classic designs. Great video! Mixing in the drone footage works so well! 👍🏻

That was a great 'Vintage' flight!

I was told by my 1943 J-5A instructor & pro-wildlife herder/wrangler in Prescott, AZ (circa 1998): "When chasing wild antelope herds at half a wingspan altitude; trim UP to the point where you have to push down HARD to hold level flight attitude, so during any emergency or distraction or bump - you'll gain altitude. Keep a gully or fence real close by; in an engine out, you'll pitch up, clear that barrier - put it between you and the herd - then land in the bush. Because the next thing that will hit you after the ground is the HORNS of a PISSED-OFF BULL RAM ANTELOPE thru the stretched fabric over aluminum. They run in a pack then spread out in a thin line with Does and Babies up front and Rams in the back. The rams eventually tire of running; get pissed off, stop, turn, put their heads down/horns up, and RUN full steam at the aircraft." Ahhhh, Piper Cub & Bush Flying!!

Steve. Your flying partner sounds like a carnival barker...LOL!! LOVE vintage!!

Great video Steve!! I've always wanted to get my tailwheel endorsement , maybe one day!! I got a little nervous for you guys going over those trees on your first final!! Great landings for your first time. Well done!!

Great video. As you two were getting out, at the end, I saw just a little lift on the wings... those Cubs just want to fly.

I did the same as you Steveo1kinevo! When I started tailwheel I hunted down a J-3 Cub to begin in. It led me to Midlothian, Texas when I found one at a glider school with no electrical system as well. So much fun

Great music Steveo and even better flying..

Hey Steveo.....Just loving the music you play with your awesome videos :-)

I watch both of your channels. It's nice to see you guys fly together. Thank you both for the great videos you put out for us to watch.

Wow what a change from your TBM 🤪 But it’s nice to get back to the basics one’ts in a while ! But the nices thing youdid Stevo is that you’re helping a friend with his business 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😜

Love the Cub (and SuperCub). Best flying ever.

Super vol et bien expliqué même pour un ancien pilote...Merci

Awesome videos man Piper Cubs are cool my dad used to fly one when I was a kid out of Riverside California he built experimental aircraft last one he built does a 3/4 scale replica of a World War II Jenny. thank you for sharing and peace out

That’s great steveo looked like you was nearly doing some tree pruning 😬 I rent a pa18 super cub 150 so much fun

good job Steveo flying different birds always a learning experience