Trimming the landing gear skirts

[dennis]

Sept 16, 2013 20:12:05 GMT 1 flydiver said:

I fly off a semi-maintained grass field. No one uses skirts. They are a nuisance. So are 'scale-sized' wheels on grass. Go naked, go big, or take it in the nose.

 Ditto! I have always just removed the skirts on all my planes as well, my club field has some knarly grass! I expect to recieve my Cub This Wednesday the 11th, I sure hope the wheels are large enough to handle the grass!
  I dont want to add any weight if at all possible, anyone here have any problems with the stock wheels on grass?
A little up elevator until some speed is gained on take off with a tail dragger usually solves this problem, but dang those wheels do look small in the Horizon hobby  pics lol!

[sham]

On stock wheels, landing on grass is very tricky. Even on short cut grass.

I tried and tried, and thinking I was just being a newbie got myself convinced I'd never land this plane well.

Then I bought 63mm foam wheels, next landing stuck.