A hinge or painted line is always nice. But some airplanes
don't have such, sometimes you can't see any part of the
nose past the window frame. But what ever you fly you have
to find something to use as references.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

"Dave" wrote in message
...
|I look down the piano hinge line on the left side of the
cowl..
|
| Places the nose wheel on the centerline every time..
|
| Well.... every time I have the hinge lined up anyway...

|
| Dave
|
|
|
| On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:45:55 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
| wrote:
|
| This is not just a problem with SE trainers,
| look at the tires on a Lear or King Air next time you
have
| the chance, it isn't uncommon to see all the tire wear
on
| the co-pilot's side because the Captain does all the
| landings.
|
| Interesting observation, Jim -- thanks.
|
| As a new pilot I used to occasionally have trouble
landing in a slight crab,
| even when there was no crosswind. (In fact, it was
sometimes worse with NO
| wind at all.) I cured that problem by consciously
aligning the nose and
| tail of the plane with the runway, not just aligning *me*
with the runway.
|
| Now, it's second nature, but it took some analysis to
figure out what I was
| doing wrong. It never dawned on me that this was common,
and would result
| in uneven nose-tire wear!
|