ZachariasX Posted July 2, 2017 Posted July 2, 2017 Wow... that girl has some practise. Nice how she flairs out the plane. With tail draggers, you usually have the stick all the way back to your seat when touching down. From what I see, people not used to taildraggers tend to make wheel-landings with such aircraft, risking the plane to sommersault. Also many people used to tricycle GA planes tend to let the plane sit down while still yawing into the crosswind. You can see that in all those youtube videos from airliners landing in sever crosswind conditions. Not crossing your controls to straighten the plane is also a good invitation to cartwheel after sitting down. But she has it made all right. Nicely straighted out and flared out.
unreasonable Posted July 2, 2017 Posted July 2, 2017 Nice, good for her. I hope she is called Jenny too. (A great future in crop dusting awaits. ) Pedantry corner: is it correct to call the Curtis JN-4 a "pre-WW1 biplane"?
Monostripezebra Posted July 2, 2017 Posted July 2, 2017 (edited) Pedantry corner: is it correct to call the Curtis JN-4 a "pre-WW1 biplane"? Yes. Pushy americans, always showing up late for every war.. ;=) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GOtqHIt4IM Edited July 2, 2017 by Monostripezebra
6./ZG26_Klaus_Mann Posted July 2, 2017 Author Posted July 2, 2017 Wow... that girl has some practise. Nice how she flairs out the plane. With tail draggers, you usually have the stick all the way back to your seat when touching down. From what I see, people not used to taildraggers tend to make wheel-landings with such aircraft, risking the plane to sommersault. Also many people used to tricycle GA planes tend to let the plane sit down while still yawing into the crosswind. You can see that in all those youtube videos from airliners landing in sever crosswind conditions. Not crossing your controls to straighten the plane is also a good invitation to cartwheel after sitting down. But she has it made all right. Nicely straighted out and flared out. Well, at least my FIs (how unfortunate you Americans have no Word for "eintrichtern" which literally means to Funnel Knowledge into someone) really trichtered me ein to always keep the nose straight onto the Runway and let one Wing drop into the Wind on Approach and just straighten out before the Flare. The Problem with that and an Airplane like the Jenny is that these Crates can be quite unforgiving to hard Touchdowns on one Wheel which is why it has those Skids. But I hope she remains in the wonderful world of Aviation.
ZachariasX Posted July 2, 2017 Posted July 2, 2017 Well, at least my FIs (how unfortunate you Americans have no Word for "eintrichtern" which literally means to Funnel Knowledge into someone) really trichtered me ein to always keep the nose straight onto the Runway and let one Wing drop into the Wind on Approach and just straighten out before the Flare. The Problem with that and an Airplane like the Jenny is that these Crates can be quite unforgiving to hard Touchdowns on one Wheel which is why it has those Skids. But I hope she remains in the wonderful world of Aviation. I'm familiar with "eintrichtern" . But with these aircraft, it's probably the way to go. Never flew a Jenny myself, but the Bücker Jungmann. Although *it possible there* to make wheel landings, it is prone to jump after touching the ground. If the wheels get a sidewas kick when doing so, this may be the result: Actually, I feel putting it down on one wheel with controls crossed to make the aircraftt point exactly in flying direction is much easier than any other way as long as you flare it out properly. You will hardly notice that you touch down with one wheel first. Going just slightly crabwise can quickly give you the "Mig-3 experience" as we have it (currently) in this sim. Actually, I do sypathisize somewhat with how the devs currently implemented that one (Still, I'm looking very much forward for the FM patch.) But it is very obvious why they made airfields just large patches of grass back in the day. As long as you can land or take off straight into the wind, it does it almost by itself. Under crosswind conditions, you better know what you are doing, because those aircrafts were not made for such. ....And now I need to fire up Rise of Flight. I'm on. Where are you?
Sokol1 Posted July 2, 2017 Posted July 2, 2017 Pedantry corner: is it correct to call the Curtis JN-4 a "pre-WW1 biplane"? More correct "WW1 era biplane" since was introduced in 1915.
MiloMorai Posted July 2, 2017 Posted July 2, 2017 More correct "WW1 era biplane" since was introduced in 1915. Since the the a/c is American and the USA didn't enter WW1 til 1917........
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