People like to seethe wings level in an airplane and they are the same
way on a motorcycle when you go around a curve they go verticle, takes
so getting acomstom to.
Jim
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:52:52 -0600 "Oscar Zuniga" <taildr...@hotmail.com>
writes:
> Mark, I predict that the fuselage will heat up excessively under that
> blue
> paint on the graphics, the shiny paint and fiberglass will
> delaminate, the
> wings will melt off, and your airplane will never fly again ;o)
> Like the
> man said, "those who say it can't be done should get the he%# out of
> the way
> of those who are doing it!" Beautiful job on your KR.
>
> PS- I'll bet that in my first 20 hrs. of flight training I never
> made a
> landing that I didn't slip 'er in on final. That's just the way I
> was
> trained (J-3 Cub and Citabria 7KCAB and GCAA). And after that,
> flying 172s
> and Warriors, I would fly a crabbed final approach in a crosswind,
> transitioning to a wing-low in the flare, only when I had pax
> onboard
> because I've found that most non-pilot passengers feel uneasy if you
> hold
> one wing low into the x-wind on a final approach. They don't seem
> to mind
> that the airplane is "cocked" looking down the final flight path, as
> long as
> the wings are level. Go figure. To me, it's just one more little
> tricky
> maneuver to try to transition it from crab to slip in the flare, and
> when
> flying solo, I'll fly the wing-low slip rather than a crab in a
> x-wind
> final.
>
> Oscar Zuniga
> San Antonio, TX
> mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com
> website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
>
>
>
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