On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 12:29, David Megginson wrote: > Major A writes: > > > I think it's reasonably gentle at less than 1m/s for each landing > > gear. No other part of the plane touched the runway. Remember this is > > with no flaps at all, and there is no stall involved. > > In a regular landing, you want the gear barely sinking at all at the > point of contact -- maybe a few cm/sec. For a short-field landing, > you plant it harder, but I'm not sure of the exact vertical velocity.
12 fps is a lot. > > > All the best, > > > David -- Tony Peden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
