"Mitty" wrote in message
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I am learning to fly a Blanik L-23 and my instructor is telling me to "fly
it on" with no flare.

1) I am commercial/instrument rated with somewhere north of 1000 ASEL and
a few ASES landings in my logbook. I am _programmed_ to flare. :-) To
not flare is very hard for me.

2) The Blanik AFM refers to flaring on landing.

3) The instructor is very concerned about the fragility of the tail wheel,
so possibly this is the reason for his technique.

So ... to flare or not? When solo, I mean.

BTW, this is pretty neat stuff. I wish my first few hours of training had
been in a glider. Certainly I would have learned to use the rudder much
sooner!

Could he be concerned that you will do a tailwheel first landing if you
attempt a more tricycle gear type "full stall" landing (I assume that is
what you are used to doing)? Perhaps he is shooting for something like a
"wheel landing" where you touch down above the stall speed on the mains of a
taildragger? That still involves a flare - but not as much, and not holding
off until you get close to the stall speed - just level it off and set it
down. I assume that you still pretty much slow the descent rate down before
touchdown?

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Geoff
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