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Patrick
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« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2015, 08:41:28 AM » |
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Nice video. That man had no problems with that and was in no hurry to get stopped.
900' is not an issue for most little taildraggers and a good pilot.
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« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2015, 08:54:56 AM » |
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Surely that's a logging road and not a runway.  They need to clear some of those trees.  |
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« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2015, 11:54:27 AM » |
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Up hill grade also helps on a short run way ,both in and out.
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« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2015, 01:03:35 PM » |
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25 years ago when I had my Luscombe, a friend had a 700 foot grass runway I landed on and took off on. Had to drop it in over some trees. It was interesting, right on the edge of a stall, push nose over, and crab her in. this guy put her in nice, kinda narrow looking at first, but other than that, nice job. I would hate to do that on a windy day.
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Patrick
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« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2015, 01:11:24 PM » |
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25 years ago when I had my Luscombe, a friend had a 700 foot grass runway I landed on and took off on. Had to drop it in over some trees. It was interesting, right on the edge of a stall, push nose over, and crab her in. this guy put her in nice, kinda narrow looking at first, but other than that, nice job. I would hate to do that on a windy day.
Drop in over some trees ? Just slip it in. |
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« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2015, 01:27:52 PM » |
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He must have blown right past the runway. I didn't see it.
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« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2015, 02:42:59 PM » |
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I SO miss doing that kind of stuff.  |
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« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2015, 04:02:04 PM » |
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I still love doing that stuff.
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« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2015, 04:15:13 PM » |
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Hmmm, I saw at least fifty places to land while he was on his approach. That runway was way bigger than I'm used to.  |
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« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2015, 04:17:42 PM » |
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For 30+ years I was putting them in and out of small confined spaces, course that was rotor wing, and they called them hover holes.
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« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2015, 04:21:21 PM » |
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I usually land on 5000 feet and 150 wide concrete with safety areas all the way around, put her down pretty good! ,, Most of the time. Firefighter
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« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2015, 06:40:27 AM » |
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It all depends on what you are flying, how well you can handle it, and the weather conditions...Jim  |
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« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2015, 07:20:21 AM » |
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I usually land on 5000 feet and 150 wide concrete with safety areas all the way around, put her down pretty good! ,, Most of the time. Firefighter
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« Reply #14 on: January 15, 2015, 07:32:11 AM » |
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25 years ago when I had my Luscombe, a friend had a 700 foot grass runway I landed on and took off on. Had to drop it in over some trees. It was interesting, right on the edge of a stall, push nose over, and crab her in. this guy put her in nice, kinda narrow looking at first, but other than that, nice job. I would hate to do that on a windy day.
If you were flying a stock 8A Luscombe off of a 700 foot grass strip they must have been about 3 foot tall trees!! |
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« Reply #15 on: January 15, 2015, 08:26:05 AM » |
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No, That means I land pretty good most of the time!
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« Reply #16 on: January 15, 2015, 08:51:55 AM » |
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25 years ago when I had my Luscombe, a friend had a 700 foot grass runway I landed on and took off on. Had to drop it in over some trees. It was interesting, right on the edge of a stall, push nose over, and crab her in. this guy put her in nice, kinda narrow looking at first, but other than that, nice job. I would hate to do that on a windy day.
If you were flying a stock 8A Luscombe off of a 700 foot grass strip they must have been about 3 foot tall trees!! Yeah, that's short for sure. One end,approach on that day was over trees, definitely short field landing technique, slipping it in,(not crabbing, my bad), the other end was pretty open after the end of the grass thankfully. Fun stuff for sure. Wish I still had her to fly, sweet plane. The guy that taught me to fly was a real stickler on short field stuff because we live in the country and have so many fields, although short. Lots of hills and hollers around here. It must be a real rush for those bush pilots landing in those short, hilly, bushy, narrow, crazy fields. It can definitely make you pucker sometimes. |
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« Reply #17 on: January 15, 2015, 08:54:16 AM » |
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No, That means I land pretty good most of the time!
Easy, easy. I understand. Just kidding. I've taught a lot of folks how to fly. Most of us all land pretty good most of the time. I'm just pretty anal about short, soft and forced landings. |
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« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2015, 12:41:58 PM » |
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Hmmm, I saw at least fifty places to land while he was on his approach. That runway was way bigger than I'm used to. You must fly ultra lights or something with Tundra Tires |
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« Reply #19 on: January 15, 2015, 01:24:17 PM » |
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« Reply #20 on: January 15, 2015, 05:24:43 PM » |
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Hmmm, I saw at least fifty places to land while he was on his approach. That runway was way bigger than I'm used to. You must fly ultra lights or something with Tundra Tires Nope, like Master Blaster, helicopters. |
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« Reply #21 on: January 15, 2015, 06:07:51 PM » |
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Turn up to the sound on the video. The stall warning becomes audible at precisely the runway threshold, thereby wasting no time getting it down and stopped. Very impressive talent and finesse.
Long gone is that finesse for me. I have been relying on electronic glide path information and/or radio altimeter callouts to find the touchdown zone for the last 28 years. My hat is off to those of you that can still do this kind of stuff in such unforgiving terrain!
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« Reply #22 on: January 15, 2015, 07:16:59 PM » |
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Growing up and spending 30 years in AK. I have flown with many very good pilots. I had a friend who had a '46 or so J3 who would take me flying quite a bit. He was a very talented pilot but he was NUTS. Once we drank a case of beer while out flying. He would drop down into the crevasses of Knik Glacier and fly like he was in one of those Star Wars ships, beer bottles clanking around as he's banking hard left and right. But the cous de gras was landing at the top of a mountain on a 60* slope flipping a uie when it didn't have enough juice to continue up the mountain and take off again. He would do loops, hammerheads, etc. in that old plane made of spruce and fabric and 65 horses. I'll never forget seeing little "balls" of beer come out the top of michelob bottles while doing a loop and floating weightlessly. I never flew with him again, even in my dumb youth I knew the odds were against me doing that kind of stuff. To his credit though he never crashed in the 20 years I knew him.
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