I agree and for the last 10years 97% of our landings are prop off and horizontal. I often wonder about cause of prop strikes. Seems like they may be mainly landing engine on ones and not taxiing down wind or turning around or overuse of wheel brake. I always say to a person who lands with wheel brake on "everything in aviation is expensive so if you do not have to use it DON'T"
Some tailwheel motorgliders I fly (not h36 I add) I notice on rough ground get a bit of a bounce up in tail. The h36 is very heavy on tail when compared to 109A and falke. I found after a reweigh with the falkes they could easily carry 1 or 2 Kg in tail and this means the you can actually fly falke hands off in thermal (usually c of g is near forward limit) AND it really glues tail on the ground. It is not hard to do a reweigh and add a brass tailwheel if necessary I seem to remember over past 30 years a reasonable number of 109A prop strikes, Most h36s accidents involve failure of undercart but no prop strike and not sure about falkes or hk36R Ian M 2010/1/19 Nigel Baker <[email protected]> > Hi All. > Further to my last post there has recently been a prop Strike in a G109 > landing engine on. > Seems from what I am told it is standard practice at the club concerned to > land engine on and the landing got crossed up in gusty conditions. >
