Question on landing(Trike vs 3-axis)

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Postby KFA » Sat Nov 25, 2006 10:54 am

Thanks ducky. :lol: Comes from doing a few (hundred) thousend of them :wink: Must admit that I personaly prefer a powered approach, for me it makes for a smoother landing, guess it comes from my PPL days.
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Postby Bacchus » Sat Nov 25, 2006 11:25 am

Dark Helmet wrote:
Welcome Caledonner! Don't dispear... All of us went thru it. One day it will just "click in" but it is VERY hard to understand exactly what it is that needs to click in the first place!





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Postby Rob F » Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:02 pm

GR8-DAD wrote:My best and most consistant landings were when I went solo. After I got my license and another 45-50 hrs of flying I get it wrong a lot more than right. I think I should practice circuits a bit more instead of flying away from the airfield and do a single return landing :roll: :?:
I had a similar experience.
I think my Solo was my best landing to date. (I was scared half to death)
After I did my flight test, things seemed to go backwards, my landings got worse.
Then, every few flights I spent time in the circuit.

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Postby Rob F » Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:05 pm

skydiver wrote:all of this is such excellent advice for us beginners. Landing is what it's all about, isn't it? Take off is automatic. Straight and level comes soon and turns aren't hard. Landing! Meet the ground! Anyway, it is so encouraging to read that one is not alone.
As a good mate of mine says, "The more you practice, the luckier you get"
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Postby skydiver » Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:49 pm

I was hoping to go solo, but my landings got worse during the session. Somehow I forgot the altitude at which to begin to push the bar out. What is the consensus out there? In still air, with a light headwind, at what altitude do you first begin to push out the bar?
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Postby C205 » Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:44 am

skydiver that depends. Its a bit like landing a canopy and deciding when to flare. Different conditions (air density, wind speed etc) require different height and the only way you learn these is through practice. You get to feel the wing and fly the wing all the way until you stop. I developed a similar problem on the gliders. There was already talk of getting checked out to go solo, when all of a sudden I couldn't land the damn thing. What made it worse is that my landing problems were not consistent - once I rounded out too late, other times too early. Hang in there, it'll come right.
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