At 06:36 17 May 2018, Bruce Hoult wrote:
On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 1:43:09 PM UTC+12, Richard McLean wrote:
On Wednesday, 16 May 2018 22:21:48 UTC+8, Matt Herron Jr. wrote:
from my perspective, reducing airbrakes at 100' changes your glide
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e and therefor aim point half way through final. So do you give up your
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itial aim point at 100', or do you have two aim points? Either option
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s like a bad idea for students.
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Airbrake deployment should be a driven variable to maintain a correct
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pproach, not the other way around.
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Additionally, a shallower approach for the last 100' means you are
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more susceptible to wind shear, as you don't have much "extra" glide to
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over by closing the airbrakes.
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To me, it sounds like the tail strike problem is in the flair, not
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use of airbrakes.
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Hi Matt, yes you give up the original aim point. This isn't ideal but
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ter than damaging the aircraft? The debrief can cover off the reasons.
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of bad landings are the result of not accepting that you stuffed up your
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riginal aiming point & concentrating on the actual landing.

I'd think if you were so high turning final that you can't get back on to
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standard half brake approach by, say, 100m before crossing the fence
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you've well and truly stuffed up the circuit. Especially in something
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airbrakes as powerful as a DG1000 or Grob. You definitely should never be
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lanning to carry full brake all the way down the approach ... that leave
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thing in reserve for the unexpected.

Trick one
I have not flown the DG1001 neo yet but I have quite a lot of time in the
original DG1000,you need a step to get people in,if that is the angle for
2point landing them the newer versions going to land tail wheel first .

I have done hundreds of trial flights in an early DG500 that everyone said
was "over braked" ,in fact it could be .But as all I wanted was to get the
punters down safe without a hard landing I tend to add 5kns and gently fly
it on, on the main wheel.
The trouble with that is its not the correct method to teach landing to
pupils.

As I said tricky
My advice would be to buy a K21 or Duo xl ,they fly as you would expect.