I have the TK1 on my experimental 18, Nitrogen set at 70 lbs, never had to adjust pressure. Works great. I would like to see a report where someone has compared TK1 to Acme. I know I cannot drop my plane in from 4 foot and it stick to the ground as shown in Acme videos. I am running 750 tires at 28 lbs pressure.
Damn, I bet not! Guessing you could drop it from 1’ into a foam pit with all three of the shock systems hooked up and still get a bounce with 7.50s
Now lower the pressure in the ball and see the results.
Do you have a link to that video?
That is what I do and if I had too much down energy I bounced, less on AOSS compared to bungees and now with the Acmes I am not getting any. Is it needed, no they are not but I like them when I want to drop it in short.
That doesn't look like a 4 foot drop to me. I need a camera man to follow me around and see me screw the pooch and show Cletus up on dropping it in.
It just depends on how and where you fly. You really see a difference in the rough stuff. The tire follows the ground and you have much better breaking. and control Much easier to stick the mains than with bungees if you are dumping flaps in the air. The one downside I can see it you don't get that nice bungee launch into the air on a heavy takeoff when you hit a big bump. Nobody seems to mention that one
. Its like driving through Death Valley you can do it in a 65 VW bug but most like that Buick because it has AC and Everybody likes to be COOL!!
The gear is really only a small part of of performance in a STOL event. I don't think I ever competed in a event that had a cub set up exactly like mine. Cache Carr running stock bungees has beat both AOSS and ACME geared cubs at several events. Even if everybody tried to fly the same cub wind and temp change over 60 min alone could have a huge effect. At Valdez a few years the heavy class kept switching direction to get a headwind. Someone finally pointed out only one plane was going to be first and that was the Helio no matter what the wind was doing. STOL events are more like good old boy NASCAR where a little cheating among friends is fine. Ya win some loose some and talk a lot of smack whenever possible.
