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wiacaceti (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
In midwest USA, no flying until checklists are memorized. Somewhat disconcerting to see a paper checklist read in the landing pattern! Thank you for the video ride.
Conan1ts (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Holy shit. It can kill a man because of the shock. :oOWe had about 3 very rough Junior-landings on our airfield, the last one broke one of ours. It's now getting repaired.
bertjuhh16 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Nice,in deed the first FI says it was a from the book landing while the next says it was a main wheel landing.200 t/o's 130 Junioreven 1 time an open canopy on short final, luckily we had bars in front of the canopy (for the wires when you land out) so i could grab them and close the canope. The canopy-lock mechanism was too short or so. New one is ordered now, but now i always doublecheck the canopy locked!Greetings
Conan1ts (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
I prefer my kind of landing with the skid-wheel. Why? Because there are 50% of our FIs, who see the two-point landing and say, it's a great landing. But there are also 50% of those, who say it was a main wheel landing.It's a thing of how they interpret the landing.And with the skid-wheel, you're avoiding some bad misunderstandings. ;o)I just hate that every FI has another opinion as his college next to him.I have now 142 TOs, but I guess only 30 on my favorite plane, the Junior. :o)
bertjuhh16 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
And by the way, the best attitude to TD in the Junior is two-point (so skid & mainwheel at the same time).wie viel starts hast du jezt gemacht? und wie lang bist du eine segelflieger?grussen aus holland
bertjuhh16 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
He did use spoilers from baseleg on (also in the final-turn, not the procedure in holland)
Conan1ts (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
You fly this nice plane different like we do here in Germany. We don't have a paper-checklist, we have to know it by heart.Then we have an extra checklist to think through right before takeoff for avoiding crashes due to cable breaks. The next thing I recognized was that you went through the paper-checklist before APP, what we don't. During APP and touchdown, we use our spoilers, which you did only after TD. We also don't touch down with our main wheel but which our skid-wheel.But nice video!!
vsolaris (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
enjoyed your video. I have taken a ride from North Plains a few years back. Nice view of St. Helens and Rainier. Someday I'll get back into sailplane gliding. I solo'd a long time ago at Dillingham on Oahu but have only flown the schweizer 232. Not exactly high performance.
glallee (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Started the turn at 250 ft AGL (450 MSL on altimeter) and finished at 150 ft AGL. Club safety guidance is no turns to final below 200 ft AGL, and when reviewing this with my instructor he clarified the 200 ft AGL should really be the *end* of the turn (not the start). Of course this was two seasons and 50 flights ago, too. (As I said below, this flight was a deliberate exercise to land at the threshold.)
Pik20b (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Glallee,Is it my imagination or was your turn to final at barely 40 ft. AGL??? If so, hope your circuits are better now and you aren't mowing grass any longer. Good video, by the way. |
