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  • Learning to Land - consistently!?

    ...be practiced in the event of the real thing. This is how we do all my landings. I have only once or twice be...the problem that remains is my round-out and hold-off. During my first landings - seeing the runway rushing u...

  • Dead Stick Mondays

    ...ying at, I decided to practice some power off landings.  At least a dozen....odically performing some simulated engine out landings.  I am sure many of you...e from a HG background I of course always did landings with out power, but I realize...

  • Intermediate Syndrome

    ...ghts and maintenance 8) weather fragility 9) cross winds take offs and landings 10) what to do if cross winds...ure other pilots see you 13) special dangers of tail wind takeoffs and landings 14) low and fast 15) trim sys...

  • Your Engine Just Quit, Should You Land On A Road Or A Field?

    ...ed to do some research on forced landings to see if there was a signifi...in the outcome of road and field landings. We researched the NTSB acci...Now that we've covered the road landings, let's take a look at what ha...irplanes. The Sheet News Field Landings Next up, field landings...

  • Flexible Boom Camera Mounts

    ...nd http://ozreport.com/17.124#1   One thought I had is that these may not stand up to the speeds and vibration and multiple landings that trikes do.  With a...

  • Trike Shimmying at landing

    I went with my friend for a flight today, I fly a Northwing Navajo with HKS 700e. We did a few touch and gos, on two of the landings we felt a significant shimmy. Now on my trike...

  • A true storry

    ...al exam. 1st he didnt the pre-flight check, 2nd he made two the same mistakes to landing procedures in two flights. It werent nice, good and safe landings. I explained him what mistake...

  • PSA902 Gets Hijacked!

    ...e between LAX and SFO primarily and we had strong relationships with their flight crews. I was working the local control position (clearing landings/takeoffs) that night. Since w...

  • Teen's high flying dream lands him in Marion: 3 Days & 900 Miles

    ...nots making the prospect of landing a lot harder. For an aircraft of this size and weight, 7 knots is a maximum safe wind speed for take offs and landings, more than that and the plane...

  • Gibbo Manta 17 wing First Impressions

    ...gh a great wing (I use to call it a parachute) was a floater and took a little while coming down. I had heard that Manta wings are better at spot landings and don't have as much fl...