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Old 02-26-2014 | 08:30 AM
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I land light full-scale planes the way Rob describes. You can land models that way, too, but it's a lot harder with models, because it's hard to hold a specific bank angle when you aren't in the cockpit with a view of the horizon. So, for beginners, I recommend crabbing. As an earlier post described, when you crab you can use rudder to straighten the plane just before touching down, though with trainers, when starting out, you don't absolutely have to do that. Our landing gear is insanely strong compared with full-size planes. So you can practice crabbing on final and, when you get that down, add the last-minute rudder input.