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Future Club Training Gliders
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, " wrote: I see many pilots do what I call "landing in a pile".....they touch down, and immediately let the stick go forward........jamming the nose wheel (or skid) onto the ground..........some even push the stick forward!!! WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!!!!............ With a nose dragger glider, the nose wheel is NOT a "landing gear", it is merely for ground handling and slow taxi....SAME for the skid on a nose dragger glider.........it is not a "landing" skid, it is just to support the glider when stationary or during the very beginning of the take off roll, and the very end of the landing roll. Same for the nose wheel on a tri gear airplane........... Bad habits come easily.......in our repair shop, we have had a rash of airplane repairs where the tricycle gear airplane was landed nose wheel first.......(or bounced into a nose first landing) resulting in flatened front wheel, bent landing gear, bent firewall, and sometimes prop strike and engine rebuild.........I see "wheel barrow " landings at our field all the time......BAD TECHNIQUE!!!!! Airplanes, gliders, nose dragger, tri gear, tail dragger, all should be landed nose up, tail down. Landing loads taken by the main gear, and pitch control maintained throughout the ground roll....... So don't blame the 2-33...... Cookie On one of my wife's 2-33 instruction flights: The instructor wanted to land and stop quickly so he would not have to push the glider too far back to the takeoff point. He jammed the skid onto the paved runway at touchdown. The friction heated the metal skid to incandescence and caught the wooden skid underneath on fire! |
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