Originally Posted by
drac1
If the plane is almost stalled, then you have enough elevator. Just need to keep a bit more speed up so you can flare properly.
yes, yes and yes. Decide if you are able to move the CG back any farther. The benifits of that is the airplane will land even easier and you can reduce the amount of elevator travel needed. Less elevator travel can help keep your wings level on pulls. A mistake that many guys make is maintain a nose heavy condition and then try to correct by running more elevator travel. This ends up stalling the stab which is often mistaken for a tip stall. IMO if you need to hold more then 1/8 forward stick to maintain inverted flight then the CG can be moved back more.
While on the topic of landings. I see at every contest guys trying to stretch the flare in order to touch down directly in front of themselves. At the end of the day that approach gets less points. Don't focus too much on where the touch down happens. Establish a good rate of decent and keep it as constant as possible. The landing starts being judged at 2M of altitude ( supposedly) but the judges are watching your entire approach. Come straight in, keep the wings level and try to line up to runway center using rudder. Maintain your rate of decent, gradually reducing rate until contact with runway. Do not balloon up or drop onto the runway.
welcome to precision flying. Like I tell other guys, Morphious has offered you the blue pill and the red pill. From now on you will forever use what you have already learned and will be learning in the near future on every airplane you fly from here out.