my pennys worth ,i think the ideal situation for landings for a lot of = conditions is to land at a speed just above the stall ie the flare = should should just stall it just slightly above the ground . however in many taildraggers they cannot achieve this because the stall = angle of the wing cannot be achieved on the deck because of the = tailwheel usualy being too high ,in that situation you will always land = fast and a lot of the time tailfirst.
landing fast carries with it many problems , long stopping distance more = reliance on brakes etc etc=20 tong bingelis covers this in his books . got to get the angle right either by raising the main wheels of lowering = the tailwheel usually phil ------=_NextPart_000_02AF_01C565E4.977ABF40 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>my pennys worth ,i think the ideal = situation for=20 landings for a lot of conditions is to land at a speed just above the = stall ie=20 the flare should should just stall it just slightly above the ground=20 .</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>however in many taildraggers they = cannot achieve=20 this because the stall angle of the wing cannot be achieved on the deck = because=20 of the tailwheel usualy being too high ,in that situation you will = always land=20 fast and a lot of the time tailfirst.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>landing fast carries with it many = problems , long=20 stopping distance more reliance on brakes etc etc </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>tong bingelis covers this in his books=20 .</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>got to get the angle right either by = raising the=20 main wheels of lowering the tailwheel usually</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>phil</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_02AF_01C565E4.977ABF40-- -------------- next part -------------- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.2.0 - Release Date: 27/05/2005