Trike Tumbling

[Henni]

Hi Henni...........you just be careful of getting complacent in your 3 axis........there are as many monsters waiting for the careless pilot....and the not so careless.........

So true! Never thought of it in THAT way, but yes, I have to agree with you - every design also has it's pitfalls.

Keep well,
Henni

[FAWGie]

I've got 2 whip stall vids taken of trikes...I get the shivers every time I watch them....

[Boet]

After having seen a trike tumble, I have since politelely refused ever to get on board one.

[emil]

Hi Henni...........you just be careful of getting complacent in your 3 axis........there are as many monsters waiting for the careless pilot....and the not so careless.........do you know how quickly you can get into a flat spin and in what situation this can happen...........most fixed-wing's are doomed once they enter a flat spin, and what about torque rolling if you are low and slow with a high nose attitude and you apply full power and the environmental conditions help a little by a little thermal under the upgoing wing,.........and over you go, inverted, ........into a spin from which your aircraft cannot recover......... and control linkage failure.....a common occurence in fixed wings (my control linkage is a simple base bar)........

Anyway, fixed wing is lekka, so is gyro, so is hang glider etc., all lekka, but none of them if fool-proof.........so enjoy and take care and be careful other wise it WILL bite hard...

Regards.

you are so wrng about the flat spin...most planes CAN NOT even spin ...a flat spin is an aerobatic move...you have to FORCE a plane ..even like a Extra or Cap or one of those to flat spin...it DOES NOT just happen

[Biggles]

Getting back to trike tumbling. The most common way of getting into one is stalling while in a nose up attitude. Firstly you shouldn't be in that situation but going "shoot-ups" and climbing away from the field too steep and experiencing a loss of power can lead to it. I suppose a stall at low enough speeds and with the wing in could do it aswell.

I was taught to keep the wing forward and then when the wing is level turn off to the side. Resist the temptation to pull the wing in.