Yep the learning continues!! :) I get humbled from time to time in the Tailwind. Hard to make em all perfect. Keep practicing. Days like this keeps guys like you striving for perfection-- a Good Thing! Don't accept mediocre.
Good on you Marty. It wasn't until I slowed my speed over the fence to 60kts that I started landing the T18 where I wanted. Following a runway departure off a landing once, I subsequently spent a day at a quiet strip doing full stop and goes with a walk along the flight line after every second one, and the last landing back at my own field was #12. I had to get back in the aircraft or it was going to beat me, and I was flying away down country the next day... so I had to get it sorted!
Nice watching ... Why you flying 95mph at the short final and not 85mph? Any reason for that, because 85mph would make transition shorter and time to make mistakes ...
I agree. I’m working my way down in speeds to see how it feels at each speed. Seems like 85-90 is the goal to shoot for. Hopefully should have that in a video shortly then I can see the difference. I can’t say why I started flying it at higher speeds, I guess it was just a mental block. 1.3 Vso is about 85 so I know that’s where I really should be.
@@MartyG144 in my case 1,3*Vs1=75 mph on short short final, starting with 85mph on final ... may help ;o) In your video you can recognize, that it will settle down exactly at 60mph .. enough room to go down to 75 ;o)
I’m just doing some research on the thorp, seems like it’d be a perfect airplane for my mission. Seems like everyone lands hellaciously fast in it. Most of the airplanes I’ve flown Vapp is 1.3xVs for the configurationz. Looks like bottom of the white arc is 60mph, so 1.3x60=78. Is your main reason for coming in so much faster visibility over the nose? Seems like coming in slower would shorten the float. Not trying to critique you, I’m just asking.
If you’re too slow across the fence, there won’t be enough energy to keep flying in the flare. It’s really weird… if you don’t have the energy in the flare you sink at an alarming rate while desperately pulling back on the stick. Then you hit the ground tail low, followed by then the mains with a good amount of vertical speed. The gear is stiff, so it launches you back in the air, but the airplane is too slow to fly, so you end up doing it again a few times. You soon learn that for best results the T18 needs to be flown on with a bit of power and a bit of speed. You pull the power when you enter the flare.
I don’t use flaps much anymore either, especially for 3 Point. The airplane tends to drop out with flaps down. Leaving the up tends to lead to a softer touchdown.
