landing bounce
03-26-2020, 12:37 PM
#77
Assuming that all is well with the plane and it's properly rigged, it must be considered that different airplanes exhibit different flying characteristics and have different requirements for pilot skills. With that out of the way, the one thing that always remains the same about a landing (except maybe on an aircraft carrier) is the fact that you should NEVER try to MAKE the plane land! It does that all by itself when it runs out of airspeed necessary for lift. If the plane returns to the air after a bounce, it wasn't ready to land in the first place.
The process of landing is to hold the plane off the ground for as long as possible as it runs out of airspeed, then the thing lands itself! Think of it like a contest to see how long you can keep the plane off the ground (while near the ground of course) as it loses airspeed, but if you do everything to keep it from settling down, it will end up landing itself perfectly and even if it hits a bump, it will not have enough energy to get back into the air. Force it to land and you've got problems, no matter how good a pilot you are otherwise!!!
The process of landing is to hold the plane off the ground for as long as possible as it runs out of airspeed, then the thing lands itself! Think of it like a contest to see how long you can keep the plane off the ground (while near the ground of course) as it loses airspeed, but if you do everything to keep it from settling down, it will end up landing itself perfectly and even if it hits a bump, it will not have enough energy to get back into the air. Force it to land and you've got problems, no matter how good a pilot you are otherwise!!!
03-26-2020, 03:34 PM
#78
What I have found when somone has issues with bouncing on landing is that they are running the CG too far forward. Another probable cause is poor landing gear location. I have a 1/3 scale Reed Falcon that that has the gear a bit too forward, unless I do a full stall landing as you describe it will bounce. The 1/4 scale version has the gear a bit further back and does not exhibit the same behavior.
03-26-2020, 04:35 PM
#79
Kinda funny how all these old locked threads got unlocked when the big software improvement (?) happened back around 2016 . As can be seen by these posts I quoted , this BMatthews guy who used to be a moderator here locked this thread back in 2012 , and in 2016 it rose from the dead like all good zombie threads do .
