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Old 09-14-2012 | 07:43 AM
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Default RE: landing bounce

As jester mentioned and I forgot to describe, his landing are of the bounce type. His plane will usually bounce back up into the air 2 or 3 times before staying on the ground. It sort of looks like his gear has springs on them. This may suggest he is touching down with too much airspeed but it doesn't look like the plane is going that fast.

A lot of the guys ask me to test fly their planes for them as I am one of the more experienced pilots in the club. I think I will ask this guy if he would like me to test fly the plane to see if it bounces when I land it. I'm not trying to brag but I'll say that if a plane is flyable, I can handle it. I haven't crashed anyone's plane that has asked me to do the maiden flight and that has been at least 30+ planes. For me, the landing is the most fun phase of flying and I take great pride in making a good landing.

Mike