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Taichiskiing
"taichiskiing" wrote in message ... On May 15, 6:41 am, "Stuart" wrote: "taichiskiing" wrote in message ... On May 13, 10:31 am, Stuart wrote: I sometimes will do a wheel landing in a heavier tailwheel airplane. Basically you just fly it on, pin it with alittle fwd elevator, then reduce power to idle.No real advantage, it just "looks pretty". Yes, but I think that's pretty cool too if you have enough runway to rollout and to stop, but that's not much an option in bush flying. In Alaskan bushes, people just wanna do short field landing. At Talkeena, AK, a rural town between Anchorage and Fairbanks, I've seen those locals practiced short field landing on their "cubs" by landing across the runway and turning out on the first exit of taxi way, some 250 ft (what they claimed), and that was awesome. My runway bounces are the stuff of legend....I can literally bounce right back up to the circuit (or pattern as you would call it) Just kidding... One bounce, touch and go? My friend can bump his biplane from one main wheel to the other and back.... I've got bounced by bad landing with tail-draggers a few times, that wasn't funny, but the experience of bush low flying on deck saved the days; I just lowed the nose, added power, and high speed skimming on the runway until I reached the best climb speed before I pulled up. That was fun too, I liked to do high speed on deck, more exciting than driving a race car. One interesting feature for flying the Alaskan bushes is you see a lot of wild lives, especially, the moose, they like to hang out on the airstrips for the open spaces and the young willow trees [for food]. A lot of times we had to buzz them off the field before we can land; that's where the high speed low flying comes in. In Alaska uncontrolled air space (just outside of Anchorage across the "turn again arms"/tidal water areas), it is not uncommon that we flew 50 ft above ground. My friend has the best bush plane on the planet. It's called a UTVA 66 (No you haven't heard of it I guarantee you) You can google it maybe find a picture. Made in Yugoslvia. Hard points on the wings for guns, rockets or extra fuel tanks, geared 360hp lycoming engine dual side by side sticks, triple header exhaust pointing straight down on each side to scare away the bears. It is LOUD....very LOUD... You can sideslip that sucker straight down and land it like a helicopter Funny thing about the slip though, all old time pilots know "what" slipping is, as well as experienced drivers, but in skiing, it seems few skiers know exactly what it is. And the gappers on this board insisted that I was "wrong" when I told them the difference between "skidding" and "slipping," and laughed themselves silly. What do you think? That's easy. A slip is sliding to the inside of a turn and skid is to the outside. IS |
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