On 13 Jan 2005 06:29:29 -0800, wrote:

In thousands of hours in crop dusting in a variety of aircraft,
dirt/grass/asphalt/concrete for landing areas, I never knew if it was
going to be a 3 point or a wheel landing. Most of the time it was a
slow speed wheel landing with minimum roll and braking

That's been my experience as well (except for the thousands of hours,
and the crop dusting).

I generally expect to do a wheelie, but if it works out that I can't
see over the cowling, I just explain to myself that this one is a
three-pointer. They work out about the same, except that it seems to
me that the wheelie is more likely to track straight down the runway.

There's a banner tow operation at the local field, summertimes for the
tourist beaches. His operation is very like what you describe for
crop-dusting, except that most of the time he doesn't actually land


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