Landing on one wheel

On Mar 18, 5:26*am, "Ol Shy & Bashful" wrote:
This is fun stiring the pot! OK ...how many of you practice doing a
one wheel touch and go from time to time. And I don't mean by
accident.
I did it all the time with tailwheel students, and still do it with
students in 172's. We frequently get winds that are 15 G25 90 to the
runway and topography that makes the winds squirrly as hell on the
west end. Learning good crosswind techniques are vital.
I recognize different techniques are needed for different aircraft
with wing clearance, etc but I still did them with lots of different
low wing aircraft like Piper Pawnee, Cessna Ag Husky, Ag Cat,
Stearman, Thrush and so on.
Ol S&B

I have yet to do it on purpose, but I would like to!

Phil

Ol Shy & Bashful wrote:
This is fun stiring the pot! OK ...how many of you practice doing a
one wheel touch and go from time to time. And I don't mean by
accident.

A friend of mine got a nasty surprise when he tried this on a dirt strip a
few years back. I had already landed and was shooting some video of him
doing one-wheel T&Gs in his 182. After 4 of these (2 on each wheel) he
landed. When I looked at the outboard leading edge of the elevator, there
was a hole showing. Seems the dirt and pebbles coming off the main gear shot
straight back to the elevator and sandblasted a hole in the thin material
(can't remember if it was thin metal or plastic).

Fortunately, he had some 200 Kt. metalized duct tape on hand to get him
home.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:26:14 -0700 (PDT), "Ol Shy & Bashful"
wrote:

This is fun stiring the pot! OK ...how many of you practice doing a
one wheel touch and go from time to time. And I don't mean by
accident.

Hmmm I make every cross wind landing a one wheel landing... OK, most
of them are one wheel landings... Oh, OK, I TRY to make them all one
wheel landings. Sheesh. Being honest is sometimes more than a little
trying:-))

As to doing T&Gs the Deb becomes a real handful and needs to be
reconfigured *before* brging in the power which can use a lot of
runway. Otherwise you can quickly find you are still doing a one wheel
landing, but you are now riding on the nose gear/wheel. So, I
practice enough of them to be safe, but otherwise avoid them. On top
of that our airport has a policy against T&Gs not that bevery one
abides by it though.

I did it all the time with tailwheel students, and still do it with
students in 172's. We frequently get winds that are 15 G25 90 to the
runway and topography that makes the winds squirrly as hell on the
west end. Learning good crosswind techniques are vital.
I recognize different techniques are needed for different aircraft
with wing clearance, etc but I still did them with lots of different
low wing aircraft like Piper Pawnee, Cessna Ag Husky, Ag Cat,
Stearman, Thrush and so on.
Ol S&B
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com