With 550 hours of KR time and a couple of thousand in tailwheels, I'd say that your technique is A-OK. Your numbers are close enough to mine that the differences in calibration could account for it, let alone the differences in airframes and wings.
With the addition of flaps to my plane, my technique has changed to much the same as yours, except that my downwind is usually a bit faster and my final is a touch slower. I use my turn to base to get slowed almost down to flap speed and my turn to final to slow to flap speed, then drop the flaps as needed for final. Hmm. Enough of this talk. It's a gorgeous day. I think it's time to go drag the KR out of the hanger... Jeff Scott N1213W On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:47:21 -0600 "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> writes: > Dick wrote: > > > Since you have been the whole course, perhaps you can share with > us your > > entry and landing techniques. > > The way I land is apparently not the "recommended" way, but I have > to land > pretty quick on the short bumpy airport that I fly out of (2600' x > 40'). > Even Troy gets antsy when he has to land there. And since I have > split > flaps, I'm probably the only guy this procedure applies to. > > I fly about a 1200' pattern and try to be doing 110-120mph on > downwind when > I get to the end of the runway. At that point I cut it back to 1600 > rpm or > so and start slowing and descending until I get to the 45 degree > point from > the end of the runway, then turn base. Hopefully I'm doing about 100 > mph at > this point. If it looks like I might be high I'll drop the flaps, > or if I'm > low I'll wait on flaps, and add or pull power as necessary. I try > to > maintain 90 while turning final, and most of the way to the ground, > then end > up doing a little less over the end of the runway. The split flaps > keep > slowing me down as I cross the end of the runway and get in ground > effect, > and often I notice that my touchdown is in the high sixties > according to the > GPS. > > Since it's a wheel landing, I really don't do that much of a > flare...just > enough to break the descent and try to gradually touch down. > Sometimes I > end up three pointing the thing. I guess I operate in the range > just > between wheel landings and full stall landings. As soon as the > wheels > touch, I give it some forward stick to plant it and then hold the > tail up > until I'm below flying speed, or start to run out of runway (that's > pretty > rare though). Then full stick back and brake, if necessary. I > usually > don't touch the brakes at all though. > > I'm sure everybody that knows anything about flying will disagree > with this > technique, but it works for me. I have no business telling anybody > how to > land a KR., but I did about 8 landings yesterday, and the g-meter > was still > sitting on 1g when I landed, so I'm good enough for KR work... > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama > see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
