One day, I was practicing landings on a 1800m runway (that's 1968 yards in
caveman's units). I was concentrating on accurate control tracking the
centerline, etc, and I kept the tail up for as long as I could, letting
the speed decay. When I finally lowered the tail, I suddenly realized I
was near the runway end. I started applying brakes while passing over the
white lines! As I hit the runway end, I heard a faint noise and felt a
slight shock. I stopped safely on the grass about 30 meters past the
runway end.
The noise and shock were in fact my wing touching one of the runway end
lights, which were big. Big enough so that if I had hit them with a wheel,
I'm fairly sure things would have turned horribly wrong. Judging by the
tracks in the grass, I could see that I had missed one of those lights by
a very narrow margin.
Another lesson learnt: don't play with stop distance! Know how much runway
is left, never assume there is still plenty.
Serge Vidal
KR2 "Kilimanjaro Cloud"
Paris, France
"Martindale Family" <johnja...@optusnet.com.au>
Envoyé par : krnet-boun...@mylist.net
02/02/2006 11:49
Veuillez répondre à KRnet
Remis le : 02/02/2006 11:49
Pour : "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net>
cc : (ccc : Serge VIDAL/DNSA/SAGEM)
Objet : Re: KR> test flying
Oh too right...and if there isn't enough rudder authority at low speed you
can't recover from my experience unless you get the tail wheel planted.
That's how I hit a taxi light and snapped my prop. It's why I don't like
mucking around in that critical area of minimium controllability...it's
groundloop territory.....sorry Colin :-). Keep that throttle gentle both
power up and down and be ready to pedal.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Kraut" <brian.kr...@engalt.com>
To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 1:24 PM
Subject: RE: KR> test flying
> Oh, and one more thing particularly with a higher powered engine. The
KR
> tracks pretty straight on tail up taxii runs, but will dart off if you
> pull
> the power back too fast and are not ready on the rudder.
> please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
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