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This may be a stupid question, but here I go anyway. How to land successfully ?

I mean that, I have landed many times but has been mentioned about it only few times. Or is the online different comparing to the off-line landing ? Sometimes the vertical velocity etc has been mentioned, and that landing has been succesful, but mostly not, even though nothing breaks <g>.

Lauri

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Make sure you have flaps, gear and power set at around 150 mph. Try to approach the field at a 10 degree angle and aim the nose a little higher than the end of the runway. As you approach the runway, you should focus at the end of it. That should help you to flare properly without bouncing too much. Cut the power and stall it onto the ground from a couple feet up. You may also try using only 1/2 flaps if it helps you to trim the plane properly...

Wells

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Basically the secret to landing on WB is to control your decent rate with the throttle and not the nose. Pointing the nose of the plane at the runway is not the way to land.

That is; use throttle to control the rate of decent, while keeping the nose slightly high. Be sure to give yourself a long enough approach. Most landings that fail on WB is because the pilot attempts to rush the landing.

Give yourself an adequate approach and when you get to about 150IAS, hit full flaps and gear and then just let the plane float down to a touchdown while massaging the throttle to make your landing at 120 IAS or thereabouts. Nothing to it (:

Michael "Fletchman" Fletcher

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But if you're in the HA, or your field is under attack .. you might notwant to come poking in on some long slow elegant by-the-book approach.

Learn how to side-slip (or whatever else you can invent) to dump speed and altitude for a hot-shot landing! The idea is still to be at 120 IAS, maybe flaps, for sure gear (if you got 'em) .. but delay that slowdown to the last possible moment.

Your slowdown maneuvers can even be good evasive maneuvers too, since enema love to vulch you on short final.

Well I do anyway :-)

And practice a more traditional pattern, ye olde downwind, crosswind and final legs. It's good for your character :-) All these straight-in approaches are very poor form.

And an overhead 180 and split-S is cool too, if you're not in a 110 :-)

(Your tail tearing off is not conducive to good landings.)

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