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Unread 01-22-03, 12:23 PM
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Thumbs up flight report 337

http://www.fliteguide.co.za/Imperial...sna_337pg1.htm

Rather interesting reading if you have not seen it before.

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Unread 01-27-03, 12:43 PM
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Printed that one out and read it through. Very interesting. Filed it with a folder of other Skymaster articles I've collected since becoming a 337 owner.

I thought it intersting that he used a Skymaster on those little rough strips. I would think that the rear prop damages would be something you'd face on a regular basis. It's probably the biggest reasons I haven't considered doing backcountry type flying with mine.
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Unread 01-27-03, 12:47 PM
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re surface

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Usually that area of the globe deals with dust and fine sediment type soil while landing on grass. That poses no real threat. Damn rocks and stones getting in the way of the prop creates hell and diminishes the financial resources. <G>

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ACTUALLY THE 337 DOES REALLY WELL ON "ROUGH SURFACE" IN RESPECT TO THE REAR PROP. THE FRONT PROP WILL PICK UP MORE DAMAGE THAN THE REAR. THE REAR IS MUCH HIGHER AND OUT OF THE ELEMENTS. MANY YEARS OF BACK COUNTRY FLYING IN THE WEST AND CANADA HAS PROVEN THAT THE 337 DOES VERY WELL IN THAT ENVIRONMENT.
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Unread 01-31-03, 11:44 AM
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hharney is correct, all my activity is off a 1600" dirt,beach sand and gravel strip. the front prop always substained the most damage(rocks and sand blasting) finally need to replace one front blade due to wear. now use press on prop guards. raised the front strut 3-4"(more air) and now 90% of all damage is gone. also taxi on back eng and shut down front eng after landing asap.
raising the front strut made the bigest improvement
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This article is still available at
https://web.archive.org/web/20050310...sna_337pg1.htm
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Unread 01-15-18, 08:25 PM
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Great article. Thanks for providing the link.
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I operate mostly off of gravel and dirt strips over the last 40+ years of flying various types of Sky Masters. So always idle with the front engine and taxi with the rear and you won't have problems, when you're at a safe area with very few rocks or on grass and warm weather you need to occasionally throttle up to front engine, it helps the cooling on the rear engine considerably and there will be no heating issues.
By the way the Skymaster is an ideal aircraft for flying off of rough unimproved strips. And not getting towards when Landing if you keep power on the front engine you can actually keep the front nose wheel completely off the ground, until you've dropped speed to about 25 or 30 mile an hour and then you almost immediately stop when you lower the nose as you pull off power. We used to do this in air shows all the time in the 02 s
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