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Emergency Landing-Engine DEAD
On Jun 19, 3:23*pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:
Larry Dighera wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:50:25 -0400, Orval Fairbairn wrote in : Also, grass runways cut tire and brake wear *WAY down! I would expect sod strips to be ideal for learning to master landing a tail-wheeled *aircraft. In checking pilots out in a Pitts, I always had them use the grass first and get REALLY proficient with the roll out behavior of the airplane before sending them on to a hard surface. Grass was MADE for a Pitts! :-)) In my limited experience the key to a good FLWOP is planning the 1000' and 2000' points. If you nail them the glide approach is much more straightfoward. my 2c Cheers |
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