Why?2. Keep your heels off the floorboards
Can someone explain this to me?
Anyone?
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Why?2. Keep your heels off the floorboards
Min safe speed is never below stall. Below stall, well you are stalled and do not control your sink rate anymore.aeroncasuperchief wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:46 pm With minimum or no wind, I have practiced landing a taildragger and taxiing to my tiedown on 2 wheels and also landing a C-150 and taxiing to the tiedown on 2 wheels ( Hint: you need an aft C of G, ask DAR ) !
It is perfectly acceptable to 2 point a TD at stall times 1.3 or a tricycle gear A/C at stall times 1.3 IF there is no undue weight on the nosewheel! The determination to land a tricycle A/C at max safe speed or min safe speed ( which is BELOW the normal stall speed ) on the backside is based upon the CONDITIONS ! We land a tri-gear craft at lower speeds in calm wind, normally due to field length and the fact we have to pay for expensive tires and brake pads !
In some conditions it is foolish to be at or near stall upon landing and also foolish in other conditions NOT to be near stall or at stall when touching down ! CWE can explain that to yall !
I suggest you talk to him again and see if perchance most of the "tailstrikes" aren't in fact encountered during a poorly executed soft field takeoff? Poorly prepared students who add full power with the yoke pulled all the way back are often surprised when the nose rears up and if back pressure isn't released somewhat right away it doesn't take long for the tail ring to skid on the runway. It's not hard enough to damage the aircraft but sure chews through rings. I'd bet that's why he's replacing tiedown rings and not from actual landing strikes which would be accompanied by much higher forces.pelmet wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:23 pm Talked to the owner of a flight school today with 9 C172's about tailstrikes. He says that they get them on a very regular basis in terms of a scrape of some sort on the tiedown ring. That being said, he did also stated that structural damage was rare, although they change the tiedown ring regularly.
Funny you say blind.
Min safe speed is never below stall. Below stall, well you are stalled and do not control your sink rate anymore.
WHY?On every landing, you should be on the backside.
The most dignified landing IMO is when the approach speed is such that a gentle and continuous flare results in the 2 point landing ( trigear) at the appropriate speed for the conditions without any ("holding it off ) technique. IF the approach is in 0 wind, most approach speeds these days, are too high and therefore, an immediate flare to landing would have you wheel-barreling down the runway!Every airplane landed with some semblance of dignity has been held off whether you know it or not. Even a heavy jet With its nose up is being held off.
most approach speeds these days, are too high and therefore, an immediate flare to landing would have you wheel-barreling down the runway!
describes nicely my preferred landing technique - maybe not a few feet, but a foot is nice. I would rather bleed off speed from the recommended approach speed to the near stall touchdown speed over the runway, rather than along final approach.Spending time a few feet above the runway, slowly bleeding off excess approach speed, while maintaining centreline, altitude and the end of the runway in sight