I saw a few posts about landing Cubs on beaches that said the plane will head for the water. Weird. I land on beaches a lot and have never seen that. My experience has been that the nose will always head "uphill" or away from the water, especially as the plane slows down. When the uphill portion of the beach is on the left and there is an offshore breeze it can be darn near impossible to keep the plane from heading up the beach. I saw my dad put a J-3 (C-90) on its nose in those conditions.
If you were taking off under exact opposite conditions (bank on the right and onshore breeze) I guess you might have the tendancy to head "out to sea" but I don't recall experiencing that....not with fairly steep beaches anyway.
Does that make sense or do I have a Cub that's afraid of water....hmmm, does okay on floats, though.
If you were taking off under exact opposite conditions (bank on the right and onshore breeze) I guess you might have the tendancy to head "out to sea" but I don't recall experiencing that....not with fairly steep beaches anyway.
Does that make sense or do I have a Cub that's afraid of water....hmmm, does okay on floats, though.