"Bush Pilot" flies 172

[Colonel]

Uh huh.



Anyways, nice centerline, and I'm sure they think they are short field heroes
for indicating 60 knots on short final, but they floated. And then rolled out
slowly, blissfully hogging the runway for whomever else was on final behind
them.

That aircraft that day, 55 knots short final would have worked better. And
try not to grab the gear instead of the flaps in the flare.

[Squaretail]

With all that said though, the lowly 172 is a very reasonable soft/short field aircraft, stock from the factory, the older models being the best sine they're the lightest. If you were an above average pilot, you could give a lot of average pilots with more specialized machines a run for their money in any competition.

[Colonel]

Correct. A skilled pilot can land a 172 (without damaging it) many places
that it cannot be flown out of, and it must be disassembled and trucked out.

[Big Pistons Forever]

Not impressed with raising the flaps in the flare to get the too fast airplane to touchdown

Better for people to think you are not a very good pilot than to post a YouTube video and remove all doubt…..