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Old 07-28-2003 | 12:39 AM
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Default Landing technique(trainer)

It will slow down if you idle your engine low enough tho.

Just this weekend I was buddy box landing with my instructor (we both have experience in full scale planes) and the wind was blowing pretty good but it was right down the runway.

After a few I said "I bet I can set the plane down vertically". I almost pulled it off - it came from 15 feet down to about 3 feet from the runway vertically in a strong wind. The slightest elevator changes made a large pitch difference so low rates was the way to go.

I woulda pulled a perfect vertical landing but the wind died down when I was about 3 feet above the runway and the plane stalled but it was a pretty easy drop and the engine didn't even die.