Flaps and V-Tails of Death

The trick with landing in tall growth is not flaring at the top of the
'crop' but continuing to fly down to ground level. I flared early and
'landed' at 1.5 metre above the deck. The resulting 'loud bang' was the
ASW20's main wheel being pushed up into the fuselage. Thankfully the
structure absorbed the impact and I got away without any back injury.

Of course the problem with flying into the tops of uneven tall growth is the
potential to catch a wingtip and 'groundloop' at 1 metre with the resulting
potential for 'major' damage and resulting injury. In hindsight I'm not sure
that I didn't actually inadvertently do the right thing.

My incident happened when I changed my mind on finals just to be closer to
the field access road. Dumb, dumb, dumb, I was closer to the access road but
the damage took 6 weeks to repair!

Ian



"Brian Case" wrote in message
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Don't know about conventional tails. But I have been helping rebuild a
DG202 (T-tail) that landing in a tall wheat feild. It caught a wing
tip and turned sideways breaking nearly every part in the fuselage.
(Major Damage) Don't know if a conventional tail would have helped.

Brian