On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:29:56 +0000, Major A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Slip landings like this are quite fun in a real plane -- I was in the > back seat of a Porsche DR400 when the pilot did one... >
..have him work on his pirouettes, you're supposed to keep going at the same speed. ;-) (Took me a month to get my next ones as good as the first one. ;-) ) ..during WWII, a Norwegian Army Airforce trainer did a ground loop on wet ice, to avoid going tail first into the Toronto channel, the student pilot simply added a wee burst of power to stop. ..easy, but I've only done it with rc models. Plant it leeward of the centerline (or let it drift leeward, the latter approach gives a wee bonus yaw inertia margin), then rudder into the wind (brake too if you have any), carry a wee dose of power to keep the rudder effective, ease the power up as you turn around until you approach going tail first, you will like to get back to the centerline, then the stop burst of power, until you stop. Taildraggers should be easiest. ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
