ORIGINAL: bjnginge
Well my jetmach flies
, and it does it really well.
The only issue I have is that it seems to float right on past on landing, I think I am coming in too fast with full flap and not bringing the throttle back early enough.Very different to my aerobatic aircraft.
It seems that i will need to cut the throttle on base leg before final. I am going to get more practice next week, does anybody have any tips?
Cheers
I too have Jet Mach and it flies well but as you say it floats on landing. What I have found that works for me is on the upwind pass I lower the flaps and make any trim adjustments. I then turn downwind and begin to bring the throttle to 1/4 or less. I turn base and when I do that I am at less than 1/4 throttle. Once I turn final, I have the engine at idle. I have found the secret to be to put a lot of flaps in for landing. For landing I use about 60-70* of flaps. With all of this drag, the plane will slow dramatically when you get out of the throttle. I can get the plane down and stopped in about 150-200 ft. on hard surface runway (this is when no one is watching)
Ed