Author Topic: Landing fighters elegantly?  (Read 1216 times)

Offline Keiler

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Landing fighters elegantly?
« Reply #30 on: July 10, 2005, 05:09:57 AM »
Guys,

thank you so much for all your input! :aok

After many more hours of just taking off and touching down, and your hints and tips,  I am getting a hold on how to do it!
Seems my most dominant problem was that I couldnt guess where the runway is relative to me. Or how to guess the terminal glidepath since its pretty difficult to peek over the hoods of a 109 or 190.

Getting down with an occasional bump, but nothing that catapults me back up 10 feet in the air as it used to be
:D


Offline fuzeman

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Landing fighters elegantly?
« Reply #31 on: July 10, 2005, 11:05:19 AM »
If you line up good and come in over the runway you should notice the runway appear to the left and right of the engine cowl or nose as you descend. That's what I use as my que to chop throttle and begin my nose-up flare to prevent a prop strike and get the tail wheel on the ground. If you want to raise your flaps to prevent climbing, now is the time to do that also.
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