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most of my aircraft only have one main wheel.. so I always land on it..
B wrote in message ... 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 Well, I always use the slip approach method so if whatever it takes to stay on the center line results in a one wheel landing, that's what happens. I never considered it to be anything special. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. |
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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 |
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:53:07 -0400, Dudley Henriques
wrote: john smith wrote: Dudley Henriques wrote: The spring type one piece main gear legs are as you say much better suited to taking any side loads that might be imposed then an oleo leg. In this scenario, the principal negative is excessive tire wear due to scrubbing. Ah! But what about the wheelpants? :-)) My guess would be that if a pilot is catching a pant while attempting a one wheel landing, that pilot is in wind WAY over their head :-)))) I'm having a hard time envisioning a tire rolled far enough sideways to catch the wheel pant unless it's already flat.. On a Cherokee you'd need to shorten the wing about 3 feet or more to catch a pant. :-)) And at that point scrubbing a wheel pant would be the least of the worries. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com |
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