Precision Landings and practice

And the problem with that is??? :-) Call Montblack, he'll gladly help
you tear down those pesky landing-view-limiting fences.

A cool development: As part of our airport's absurd "obstruction project"
(they're putting red marker lights on anything that doesn't move, I swear)
they just took down a stand of trees that stood between us and the runways.

Most people would be ****ed -- Mary and I were ecstatic!

(I know, we're sick, sick people... ;-)
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

Welllllll, we can judge the approach from poolside -- but we're gonna need
to take a fence or two down to see the actual landing...

Sounds like an ideal place to put a large removable section.

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Jay Honeck wrote:

Welllllll, we can judge the approach from poolside -- but we're gonna
need
to take a fence or two down to see the actual landing...

Sounds like an ideal place to put a large removable section.

How about a section that operates like a remote control gate?
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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

Get a little remote cam, point it at the approach end of the runway & pipe
the feed to your Inn. Built in entertainment.


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:__1wd.504618$wV.22444@attbi_s54...
ONLY if it can be judged from pool side. Jay DOES have his priorities
set,
right Jay? g

Welllllll, we can judge the approach from poolside -- but we're gonna need
to take a fence or two down to see the actual landing...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:__1wd.504618$wV.22444@attbi_s54...
ONLY if it can be judged from pool side. Jay DOES have his priorities
set,
right Jay? g

Welllllll, we can judge the approach from poolside -- but we're gonna need
to take a fence or two down to see the actual landing...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck


Closed circuit TV, and a Big Screen by the pool, to view the touchdown? g
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Jim in NC

Ask the airport manager if you can paint a big wide stripe across the
runway and set up the cam to sight down the stripe.
Any judging/scoring challenges can be resolved by video replays for a
contribution to the "refreshment" fund.

Morgans wrote:
Closed circuit TV, and a Big Screen by the pool, to view the touchdown? g

As long as you guys are gonna have so much fun...what about a flour
bombing contest?
Put a one pound bag of flour in either paper or plastic and the
"bomber" drops it out a window or the door while the "Captain" does the
flying and safety stuff.
Yeh it makes a mess for a while but no one seems to care a whole lot
and its all biodegradeable if you use paper bags. One helllllluva lot
of fun as well as instructive.
You can limit the number of tries to make it competitive.
When we finished the crop dusting season we'd do a flag drop contest
and try to drop a flag into a bucket sitting on the runway. Amazing how
tight the contest got and how nit picky we got about accuracy. Then
we'd go drink beer and eat delicious BBQ, tell war stories and make
some up as we went along. Kind of keeps the fun in flying.
Rocky

Jack Allison wrote:


Morgans wrote:

As a spectator at OSH, it seems like some people are totally
unprepared for
precision spot landings, and some practice would be in order. Good
idea for
a thread.


I'd agree Jim, from what I've seen at my very limited time attending at
Oshkosh, I've seen some rather interesting flying. Rick Durden has some
great advice in some past Avweb articles. I was fortunate enough to
find them before flying in my first time two years ago. The articles
really got me thinking about the importance of being able to maintain
altitude, airspeed, and pull off good spot landings. It's really not
that hard but it is good to fully understand that anyone flying in needs
to be on their game.

When my brother and I arrived two years ago, I was greeted by the tower
controller with "White Cessna, good job, welcome to Oshkosh". Despite
being early that Monday morning and having the luxury of fairly loose
spacing in the arrival, it was the most intense and rewarding approach
and landing I've ever flown. I'd do it again in a heartbeat....but I'd
be sure to have recently practiced the basic skills necessary.


OSH is a good example of approach criteria that may apply in a number of
situations. In addition to the ability of doing a spot landing, you
also need to be ready to handle a change. I was on short final for 9
last year (2003, Monday evening), and was given instructions to land on
the numbers. (There was someone on logout.) However, the Bonanza
behind me was getting too close for the controller's comfort, and, at
about 400 feet, he asked me to hit the white dot. No problem (40
degrees of flaps on a 172 makes challenges like these a bit less
daunting). Got a "nice job" from the tower. Great people work there.
That was good practice for the turkeys that occasionally "appear" on the
end of the runways at LEB. (I don't mean stupid pilots, I mean the real
feathered kind.)

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