Not Slow Enough for this STOL Approach!

STOL training with Former Thunderbird F16 pilot Trevor "Dozen" Aldridge at Byrd's Adventure Center in Arkansas! It’s amazing how slow you’ve got to be, or the airplane will keep floating in the round out.
Trevor is flying the Super Patriot mk I while I was solo in the new mk II.
Huge thanks to Patriot Aircraft for hosting us - I had my family on this trip and we stayed at a cabin that I was able to taxi the plane right up to!
There's some amazing STOL training and flying content coming from what we captured on this trip!
Shout out to several related Flight Chops partners:
I'm wearing the Bose Aviation A30 headset, and always plan and then fly with ForeFlight on board, and for debriefing, nothing beats CloudAhoy. The full episode from this adventure will share awesome visualizations of the detailed data while I review how I did.
(Spoiler alert: I could have been slower almost the whole time :)
The Super Patriot features an EarthX lithium Battery (which I also run in the RV-14)
The mk II airplane is equipped with a full Garmin Aviation panel and autopilot, and when I took this thing cross country, I had my portable GDL-52 with me for SiriusXM Aviation data, so again, it felt very familiar to the RV-14!
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[@KevinSmithAviation]

Welcome to the back country of Arkansas. Hope you enjoyed your time here. Safe skies 🇺🇸🛩️

[@davidholubetz177]

no shame going around

[@jimmorrison306]

Forgive me for the sarcasm, but I can’t help it. You usually don’t want to hear your pilot say, “I’m gonna hug those trees…”

[@thomasaltruda]

That short stick looks awkward.. but is it necessary to be that short to clear the panel? Is that prop blue knob all the way in? Looked like it was out a little. Looks like a blast!!

[@FlightChops]

Prop woulda been full fine for that phase of flight yeah. And the stick is a work in progress, the plan is to have a longer one but put a bend in the bottom so it is closer, because agreed yeah, as it is now, you have to really lean forward to get the nose down.

[@francisschweitzer8431]

Wouldn’t it be cool if it was a side stick like a Cirrus. I’m just being silly because I don’t know if that could ever work

[@thomasaltruda]

@@francisschweitzer8431 naaa that’s not a simple thing.. cubs, like fighter jets, are extra cool because they fly with right hand on the stick, left hand on the throttle. Where would you put the side stick? On the right and interfere with the door? Or on the left and relocate the throttle?