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Old 12-06-2008 | 11:16 PM
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Default RE: best method to land 90 size pattern plan

You know, at my first meet I watched Scott land his 2M electric plane; his prop was STOPPED downwind and turning to base. It kicked back on for a few seconds on final, and maybe back off again.

In my beginning (ha I want to say years) few months I heard it was good to land with power, so I was powering every plane straight to the ground, so was totally shocked to see a performance plane just float in. That was what I did with my trainer and was told I should not do that, so I stopped doing that.

So, are you guys idling from halfway through the downwind leg and just goosing the throttle as necessary for more lenght?