Why I chose a Cessna 170 over a 180, or Super cub 

Larry, you squeezed every gram of performance of the 182 for gravel bar and back country takeoffs and landings. If anyone on planet earth deserves a change in style of plane, it's you. Beautiful videos and breathtaking scenery.

That’s a true pilot who knows flying on the backside of the power curve!

Riding that stall horn all the way down is both impressive and terrifying for me. Beautiful aircraft!

Your drone filming is spectacular! I'm 62 and will be taking a discovery flight in a Cessna 172 in a couple of weeks. I just love your Cessna 170. It's beautiful!

Notice at about the 8:00 minute mark how smooth you are on the controls, nice and easy! You have an excellent touch! Love watching you fly, you are clearly "part" of the airplane! Too many pilots today are ham fisted and simply do not appear as though they are as gentle on the controls as you are demonstrating! I hope others pick up on this visual cue and work to be as smooth on the controls as you are! Excellent piloting!

Another great video. Whoever does your camera work deserves credit. It’s very well done.

Wow, what beautiful aerial footage! Very nice looking 170! Thanks for sharing!

Wow, stall warning over the water! Balls of steel my friend.

Beautiful and thank you. It’s also cool seeing the fish scatter from the gravel bar landings.

I owned a 1954 Super C170B for about 16:years while I was living on the US Gulf Coast. I often took it in and out of some really short strips, but it was always at very low elevation runway. My best trick way flying under every bridge between Slidell Louisiana and Appalachacola Florida...that the 170 would fit under.

Excelente video.!! Muchas gracias por la aclaración. Tenia esa duda entre las dos naves y me lo dejo muy claro. Gracias amigo y a seguir volando!

Great stuff. Thanks for the show

Interesting decision, thank you for taking the time to explain 👍👍

Wow, you earned a sub. Awesome footage and smooth flying.

Beautiful airplane. Congratulations on your purchase. Loved the video thankyou.

This was good. Thank you. You've helped me in deciding on a future investment.

Great video. Excellent job. Thanks for sharing.

I needed this information. What a great video !

Love that stall warning blaring constantly. You control the power perfectly in slow flight.

Wow - impressive flying!

Excelente! Great video with clear reasoning for your choices.

Amazing video. Amazing plane. And even more amazing piloting.

Congratulations, great videos

Thanks for making this!

Awesome stuff Larry! I’ve been flying a 170B on edo floats for the last couple of weeks in Indiana. I miss flying with you in Washington, if you at every down in Florida I’ve got my 172 we can have some fun in.

Been a fan from the beginning. Best video ever!

You have some serious flying skills 👍

Dude! That 170 is a beautiful plane! Incredible footage and flying skills!

I always want a B with 200 hp Lyc. 👍😎

Larry, love watching your videos, always very professional and great entertainment. Super choice on the C170…always had a feeling you would get into a tail dragger.

And your drone pilot is amazing!!!

Great choice! Beautiful plane. Congratulations. Glad you will be flying the 182 in Costa Rica. I would still like to meet up with you sometime or have you come up to the lodge for a visit.

beautiful fastback brother. love it

If you could fly up here in that gem and coach me for a hundred hours, that would be great. Even 4 hours would be incredible. I was told how to touch the intended spot. Huge improvement in less than one hour. Could never miss the spot again using up way too much runway. Also how everything should be set when established on final.

Nice video!!

Those landings were amazing

Great video!

She is a beauty looking forward to more adventures.

So, are we going to start calling the channel, back country 170?! Just kidding. Great content, always love watching the channel. I’ve owned a 1958 182a square tail with manual flaps for 27 years and that’s what I like about it. It has the light controls of a 172 with a 230 hp engine, but then again, it’s still tricycle.😎

You are a bushflight legend!

Only have a few hours on the -170 but really nice airplane. I love yours!

Very nice choice!

you are the best bush pilot on youtube as well as filmographer , am looking forward to see your library

you are a very good pilot , i didnt know we cant fly back country in costa rica. i like your video !

Awesome thanks man

Such a gorgeous plane. The 180hp 170 is such the perfect platform for multiple missions

Indeed I enjoyed watching this video. I admire your skill Larry landing and taking off those really tight river bank stream deposits. I'm learning to fly C170B on X-Plane 9. Tail draggers are really challenging. I will emulate how to land with the stall warning blaring. :-)

Im sure you would have made a great carrier pilot Love your 170B One of the coolest Ive seen

Would love a walk through video of this beautiful machine!

Amazing!

Great video as always. I was sad to see you go to the tailwheel side like all of the popular guys do. Lots of of tricycle guys enjoyed your videos of the 182.

Love your videos and just subscribed. I had a 170A for a few years, all stock, and really enjoyed it, and wish I'd have kept it. Now I'm considering a back country airplane, and really like the concept of the "Super 170". Since several items get changed (engine) or upgraded (panel, etc), would you recommend just finding a good 170B in terms of clean airframe, and not worry about engine time and avionics? Or would you have other things that should be considered when looking at 170B models?

Good run down. I need to add a high wing to my stable and have been torn between all the models, spam can and exp. Im a devout io360 fan over any other engine so this was nice to hear about.

I’m glad I got my Tailwheel recurrent in the 170B model and with the 180 hp constant speed prop on the one that you have make a difference

Awesome plane!!!

The airspeed control on your landings was flawless.

Very nice... 👍

Teu cessna 182 e o 170 são lindos tu soube fazer eles tanto pintura como motor parabens

That's a nice airplane you got there

Never seriously thought about a 170 until this past month. The IO-360 sure helps this plane. Great landings in a great vid. Need a wing man? Jaja Stay safe.

Great flying Larry! I have a Cessna 172 taildragger and came to the same conclusion as you for why I selected that plane. It’s getting the 180hp upgrade this winter, I can’t wait!

amazing

170 is a sweet little bird! Only thing is I MUST have a constant speed prop, the extra performance and not having to run the engine as hard in cruise flight is well worth the expense and weight of the constant speed prop!

I’m a new owner of a 180hp 170b.

Backcountry 170…💪🏼😎

I was interested in a Piper Super Cub until I looked at the Price $tarting at $150,000! Not anymore! What a great plane here and it can seat up to 4... Nicer interior and great for the back country! 😉

170s are nice. The one downside I see to them over a tube&fabric aircraft is that once damaged beyond a certain point , it's scrapped. And it doesn't take that much. A tube&fabric aircraft can be repaired fairly easily and cheaply. But the I'm biased; I make a living out of fixing other people's broken tube&fabric airplanes.

Should have looked into a Maule! Absolutely love mine and storage/useful load is great, but I'm sure the 170 will suite your needs well.

A tricked out 170B is no match for a stock bare bones 180 period! Sticking a 180hp engine makes a fairly decent performer but I liken it to putting granite counter tops in a mobile home. If you look at the blister on the side cowling that is because you have to turn the engine in the engine compartment to change the thrust direction of the propeller because the rudder is inadequate for the amount of thrust an O360 or IO 360 provides. In regards to fuel economy, slowing a 180 down to cessna 170 speeds provides the same fuel economy without the benefit of much better performance with the 180. (a 170b is 35mph slower then a 180)In terms of weight, the 180 carries more safely. The only advantage with the 170B is the awesome over the nose visibility on approach. The supercub in regard to take off and landing blows the doors off a 170b 7 days a week and twice on sunday. They are not even in the same universe. However slower and cramped is spot on. Does this take away from the fact that this guy has a really nice capable 170b that does some really cool back country stuff? Nope. Just don't get drawn in to believing that a 170B with a 180hp engine will do what a 180 will do.

6:30. I don’t think people understand what you did here. That is truly impressive!

Great photography! Make plans to fly WY. Will host u at 46U…. Saludos, Tommy

What about a Stinson 108 series with a larger engine? Also how does the angle of attach differs from the aircraft you mentioned?

Idoloooooo

come to belize with your 182

Larry great 170 is this a 172sp 180 hp engine io-360 but only with a constant speed prop? The Cessna 180 is a great plane but I guess fuel burn on this is a more economical advantage and was the best personal fit and choice for you.

I don't know if that's the stall warning but that is straight annoying. the rest of the video is amazing flying.

I would love to come out and fly with you anytime so I’ll just ride along in your videos

J'ai eu la chance de piloter quelque année C-FZZF Cessna170B 1956 quel plaisir que du bon temps

So it is going to be Backcountry170? 👀

Remarkble flying. You really like the stall warning while landing, right?

Wow!)

What about the Maule?

Im a canadian I have a skymaster I have been thinking about flying to Mexico and trying to do some private charters do you have any tips for making money with a plane in that part of the world

Sweet little bird.

Did you consider a Maule?

Larry, what type of AoA system do you have? I love slow flight.

Excellent video. What is the HUD on the panel top? Airspeed?

It is all about power to weight ratio.

El cessna 180 con un motor 300hp. Es una bestia.

Shes a Beaut!

What is the little, what looks to be a HUD on top of the glare shield? AoA?

If you want to impress me, show me what you can do with a Cherokee 180 in the backcountry

Why not a maule?

The 170s a sweet bird, uncle eric has a 1949 170a, but he also has a cessna 180 with the 550 conversion and bushwheels, full stol kit, this plane will literally levitate out of any short field, but myself perfer the 182 all around..

When are you having your 182 back. I miss that plane

i think a zenith 750 SD would work great for these types of missions ., and COST a whole fuck of alot less

Wouldn’t a canard on the 182 enable a 10 kias less approach and landing speed than the 170, plus a few other advantages? Seems like “the perfect plane”

Unglaublich 👍

because 170 have lot cheapen than others, can buy 25k-55k used ready to fly plane ewerywere in usa.

Hey you didn't say much about the 180/185, except that the 170 burns 7 gal/hr and that a lighter plane is more fun to fly. Cost probably also favors the 170 of course. Just curious if there were any other reasons.