Gents.

Engines and classic pattern flying!

Bleed air carburator, fuel tank, idle, prototaxi, wheelbrakes?

In an earlier post I did explaine the Taurus is better to use for a "spot" landing, the straight tailcone simple does work better as an air brake than the high angled tail cone of the old tail dragger, for example Orion. Paul does have the experience also,he did say, the Orion is more a "floater", and he is right.

I do like the Old program in which "proto taxy" was part of the program, and after the landing you have to taxi to the "hangar" and stop the plane.

Ed and the other pilots did a lot of research on this part of the pattern flight and Top Flite did sell the brakes Ed did design for this.

What I did see in the threads, it was all forgotten and even now the helper puts the airplane on the strip before the pattern flight starts! Is this real? I do not think so and even now we can read back "no place" in the national team in the past sometimes did depend on the points that were lost with a bad spot landing.

Landing was as important as flying and brakes as important as the idle adjustment of the engine.
Now I read, "you never can have too much power" and "unlimited vertical".
I tell you, too much "idle" power was also too less brake power and that's the problem on concrete or asphalt and no wind.
Then unlimited vertical also can be unlimited horizontal on ground level!

My question is, does someone else also use brakes on there plane? On the classic pattern plane that originally did have brakes in the past?
When I was a judge and see the plane without brakes? No "brake points".
Idle engine and cannot stop the plane? "No brake" points!
Idle and stop the plane (in any winddirection): "Full house" points for the brake champion.

Radio control: stop is as important as go, in any wind direction on any level, also groundlevel!
Look at the real airplanes they all have brakes and Ed did make a study them, trying to make the best.

Let me know your experience.

Cees