ORIGINAL: MinnFlyer
ORIGINAL: hugger-4641
Another hindrance to a good flair and slower landing speed is a nose heavy air plane.
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a nose heavy plane lands at a faster speed and looses elevator authority as you near stall speed and try to flair.
A HUGE ditto to this.
If the plane is nose heavy, everything else you try to do will only help a little, but you'll never solve the problem until you balance it properly
It works both ways.......a tail-heavy plane is even worse when you are trying to maintain elevator authority. When doing weight and balance calculations when I was taking my pilot's training in full-scale, there was only a slim margin that you wanted to stay in and slightly nose-heavy was much better than tail heavy.