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Old 07-09-2010 | 06:59 AM
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Default RE: What should I have done?


ORIGINAL: nrad2000
Yesterday, I was practicing more aggressive landings.
I think this might be the heart of your problem. Treating the landing as an aerobatic manoeuvre is best left to people with lots of experience and recent practice on their model type. I don't ever do it.

Once you've fixed the model and hopefully got it flying again, you might like to try practicing recovery from incipient spins (at altitude). Basically it's Ailerons neutral, top rudder, throttle up, nose down gently if altitude permits and FINALLY, wings level with aileron and rudder once speed has built. Most models have a thrust to weight ratio approaching 1:1 (from either direction) so throttling up and getting the nose pointed up seems to work for most people and the whole evolution takes maybe 1.5 seconds.

There is one technique for recovering a bouncy landing of a tail dragger without pilot induced oscillation, but it's not for the faint hearted or those with limited experience on their model type. It's to "catch" the model with throttle at the top of the first bounce. Leaving the ailerons neutral, power up with the nose high so that the model mushes to the ground in the landing attitude. But this will not work with a cross-wind as the wings are in a semi-stalled condition and that would be a recipe for turning downwind onto its back............................