How to land a Eurosport
12-03-2015, 11:05 PM
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How to land a Eurosport
Hi everyone, just looking for some experienced feedback, I am about to get a new to me Eurosport and was wondering what everyone's thought on landing is.
Do you just fly it to the runway and flair to slow it down a few feet off the ground or bring it in nose high and control with power?
I gather the high alpha landings would take some practice.
Thanks Gus
Do you just fly it to the runway and flair to slow it down a few feet off the ground or bring it in nose high and control with power?
I gather the high alpha landings would take some practice.
Thanks Gus
12-04-2015, 01:09 AM
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I followed CARF's instructions to set the canard slightly up for landing and found that puts it in a lovely trim for the approach. If the throttle is in the sweet spot the plane keeps the right attitude and rate of descent. Too much power and it pitches up and doesn't descend, not enough power and the nose drops and it descends too fast, so I find that the model tells you when everything is right.
If you have a high rate of descent do not rely on being able to flare for landing like you can with a conventional wing, the nose will rise but will not stop the rate of descent and you get a heavy landing.
If you have a high rate of descent do not rely on being able to flare for landing like you can with a conventional wing, the nose will rise but will not stop the rate of descent and you get a heavy landing.
12-04-2015, 06:16 AM
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I followed CARF's instructions to set the canard slightly up for landing and found that puts it in a lovely trim for the approach. If the throttle is in the sweet spot the plane keeps the right attitude and rate of descent. Too much power and it pitches up and doesn't descend, not enough power and the nose drops and it descends too fast, so I find that the model tells you when everything is right.
If you have a high rate of descent do not rely on being able to flare for landing like you can with a conventional wing, the nose will rise but will not stop the rate of descent and you get a heavy landing.
If you have a high rate of descent do not rely on being able to flare for landing like you can with a conventional wing, the nose will rise but will not stop the rate of descent and you get a heavy landing.
+1.... I have close to 200 flights on mine and I couldn't say it any better than this...
12-04-2015, 05:40 PM
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The Eurosport is a *****cat on landings. You do need a nose up attitude but it kind of locks in with a nice descent rate. Perhaps ad just a blip of power before hitting the asphalt. Not really a traditional flare. I've had two. It's my go to airplane if I haven't flown for a while as it is one of the most forgiving on landings. You will love it!
12-04-2015, 07:44 PM
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The eurofighter it's the most forgiving and easiest jet to fly and land I have two in active duty Eurosport and the old about 20 years old fiber classic with at least 1000 flights I when thru 4 turbines with at least 20 hours on each from the p-120 super eagle Titan and p-160 now ,I have some pictures right before the touching down the runway so this is the natural angle for landing and am doing the glide in type landing so when about 250-300 from touching down I'm cuting the power to about 10%power and gliding in to final with head wind and zero power when no head wind.
