Well last night was not too bad to fly, but a light misting rain made it uncomfortable.  I found flying on an overcast evening to be disorienting, cant make out the checkerboard bottom to the solid blue top.  However I flew 3 different planes last night and the only one that had a not so good landing was the 4*, mainly due to engine tuning. As I came over the corn, which is at LEAST 7' tall now!,  the speed was good, and it was settling nicely, and I nosed down a hair, and at the same moment the engine idled up,  Man do things happen fast when that happens, I barely had time to flare it out, and made another hard landing, bounced up 2 feet and hit again, hard enough for the engine to divet the ground.  The landing gear on this one has a lot of spring to it.  I need to look into why the engine sped up when it nosed down a bit, thats not a good thing.  When coming in it had a nice slow idle, and just as I dropped the nose, it went up about 400 RPM.  Had it not done that, it would have made a nice soft landing.  Nothing got damaged though, so grateful for that. <div>
</div><div>My other two planes made really nice landings, and for the first time ever, I  landed the T-34 with flaps and on the main gear instead of its nose.  I finally got the flaps equaled out and the speed adjusted.  Every time before when I tried flaps it would roll one way or the other, even though they had the same amount of throw.    I have to take off with full flaps though, or I would not get over the corn. </div><div>
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</div><div>For all of these approaches, I used a lot of rudder and side slipping to bleed off speed, and it worked.   I also found it easier if I walked out close to where I land so I can get a better angle on the plane. If I put the plane in this valley between two trees in the distance, it drops it right down the middle.  Made all my approaches so much easier, and since I am the only one flying(my friend who has been flying for decades keeps crashing) I'm not in anyone's way. </div><div>
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</div><div>When compared to my other 4 planes, it drops fast, so its a quirk for this particular plane.  Each plane has it's own little quirks, the Twin Otter drops its nose just before a stall, the LT40 can skid if I apply too much rudder and aileron(which looks pretty cool too), but no other plane can do it.   When it approaches stall the left wing and nose drop at the same time, and it will fall to the left.   The T-34 if full flaps are applied at anything over 1/4 throttle it will do a back flip. </div><div>
</div><div>It's plane has its own little quirks, they may be normal in some manner, but not all planes do the exact same thing at the exact same time, so knowing its little quirks was what I was getting at. </div>