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Old 08-18-2005 | 12:26 PM
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Default RE: Recommendations for second plane.

On landing you should be about 1/4 throttle or about 3000 RPM and about 1 foot and a half from the ground pull your engine to idle and shortly after begin your flare. If you do it right you can come in with a higher speed and it won't bounce.
When I had my high idle issue, that throttle setting would just keep flying, it would need to be completely idle or any bounce what so ever will send it airborne again. Now that I have the idle fixed, it lands soooo sloooow. It's not that I can't do it, I just don't want to buy another plane with a characteristic that I don't like.

It is possible that I have a bad habit, I wouldn't know since I am 100% self taught. I'll try and get some video of my landings for the forum to look over, in the mean time I will play with my cg a little more even though it is a bit forward already.

In the end faster landings would be nice, but I have 90 flights on my trainer so I can get it back on the ground, the things I really want to address are the roll coupling and adverse yaw. I have been thinking about a fun fly profile too. I have several videos of the twist and it looks like a very predictable plane. I'm not trying to skip the second plane per se, I just don't want another slow flying trainer with bunch of "features" that I find myself trying to work around.

Edited to address the high idle as a past issue since it has been resolved.