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Old 02-28-2014 | 01:20 PM
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HighPlains
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I was once asked by a fellow club member just how well I could land after watching me shoot a couple hundred touch and goes one day. We were the last two at the field and it was a calm day. So I started doing touch and go landings between the pits fence and the pilot's start up pads which were in the middle of each pilot's station with another fence. Maybe 10-12 feet wide between the fences but only about 6 feet between the pit fence and the start pad for a 53" wingspan model. It takes a good model, a good throttle response, the right day, and lot's of practice. But landing consistently on a spot the size of a card table is not that hard with practice. The closer you stand to your touch down point the easier, because of depth of perception issues. By practice, I don't mean 5 or 6 landings over the course of a day. but rather dozens each flight and ten's of thousands over the years. Most model pilots seem happy if they can land without killing the engine or breaking a prop. But instead, be critical if you are not placing the airplane on the center line of the runway and stopping still on the runway. Most take-offs are just as sloppy, with poor cross wind techniques. Just saying.