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Old 07-23-2006 | 09:11 PM
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Default RE: LANDING TECHNIQUES ???

Jim , you are correct about touching down to soon. I went out this morning and put 3 more flights on. All with very nice landings. the secret seems to be in not trying to land. A good level wing line up and then let the plane go as long as it takes. I flew around on full flap/ gear down to really get an idea of the power I needed to safely manuver the plane into final aproach. I tried turning on final with partial power then chop throttle when approaching the runway. The plane wants to sink and builds up speed so i level off around 5 feet and let it run as i slowly pull up the nose as airspeed bleeds off. It was working today , anyway ....... Doug