>The main gear and brakes are "borrowed" from the Jabiru. The main >gear bolts on to the same points as the old retractable gear. Very >happy with the gear though I'm extending the brackets 100mm (4 >inches) to raise the nose even more (cannot see the strip in front >anyway :-), the reason is that to 3 point stall onto the ground I >nearly always touch tail wheel first, also it will allow me to fare >in the gear better. >Barry Kruyssen +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I have 30" Diehl legs. My wing is set to the 3 1/2 degrees as per plans. I do have a 24" stretch on the fuselage and the tailwheel jacks up the tail a bit above average. With my setup my wing is at approximately 12 degrees in the three-point attitude. My point? The wing probably stalls in the 15 degree range so I can never make a "full stall, three point " landing. If I hold it off in landing to a full stall I will always hit tailwheel first and you don't want to go there. I did that on the landing on my first flight because my pucker muscles were so tight they sucked the blood from my brain and my body failed to move for lack of direction. I have three-pointed it a time or two but it was just plain luck. No wind and I held it off long enough to be in the three-point attitude an inch or so above the ground and it settled on so sweetly that I didn't realize for a second or two that I was on the ground. That's like shooting a "hole-in-one" for a golfer and that's about how often it will happen too. A tail low wheel landing and then plant it on with a touch of forward stick is the only way to land a KR (tailwheel) and not have to make constant repairs. :-) As always, your results may vary........... Larry Flesner
