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Old 06-21-2013 | 06:22 PM
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Default RE: Jetmach floating on landing

Paul,
You're so humble, you're the guy who can easily learn to land a "hard to land" plane...

bjnginge,
Seems you've got plenty of good tips already. IMO that should be normal to float at excessive speed so that means you can still slow it down. It's a forgiving characteristic of a trainer. Also you're earning turbine experience and becoming use to land at higher speed. This is a good preparation for landing a havier jet.

You can configure your trainer depending on your preference or next jet to fly but most trainers are not enough to simulate landing experience of a havier scale jet, so for me I believe that would be helpful. Try to use crow and raise the nose up slight on the approach. Also move CG forward, these will make it stable on the approach as well as on the ground and though you might still have control of your ailerons it keeps you from going back in the air. Usually a moderate flaps can give you enough drag and lift while in high alpha but you can determine the best for you. You might need to carry power to compensate for drag depending on your sink rate. With that configuration after flaring and touchdown the aircraft absolutely has lesser lift to airborne again because its wings are level down with a lot lesser lift and higher static load caused by change in CG.