Landing technique

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Landing technique

Postby SamKellner » Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:43 am

This is a good read. Rooney describes several landing techniques, after Davis' comment about pilots at
the preworld lacking in landing ability.
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... c&start=10

This is the video of the "trim+1" method. Root stalls before the tips. If you don't stall the tips with an agressive flare, WHACK :!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjHqdmUAAFo

Hope this is useful. Thanks, Jim. :clap:

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Re: Landing technique

Postby terryJm » Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:54 am

Man, what an excellant Training method, we need to put this in the Manual section, Maybe we can recrute JimR. to help out with that. Later, Terry
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