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Old 12-04-2008 | 12:34 PM
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Default RE: best method to land 90 size pattern plan

Yup that's what I do too. I only use about 5 degrees of up aileron and no elevator mix though. Ideally you should be able to get the plane into a slightly nose up attitude on final and drag it to the center of the runway with the throttle. When it's windy you may or may not want to use this technique. Depends on the airplane, pilot and wind direction. If it's straight down the runway (when has that ever happend?) you can usually just come in "clean" with no spoileron (aileron) deflection.

John Pavlick
Team Black Magic, Tech-Aero Designs