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Subject: Europa-List: checkout in a monowheel
From: Graham Singleton <graham@gflight.f9.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:22:26

>However, I have 25 hours in taildraggers (500 hours total)
>and since I'm having trouble getting a checked out Europa pilot to accompany
>me feel like I'm ready to land the plane myself.
>
>I know some of you did the same thing...just don't remember who it 
>was.  I'd like
>to hear from pilots that jumped in without any more training than I have.
>Thanks
>
>Paul Boulet, N914PB (plane located Mesa, Arizona)

Paul
you need a few hours armchair flying. Get it firmly fixed in your mental 
autopilot that you must not land until the tail wheel is on the ground. 
Then, as soon as you feel it touch, Stick Hard Back. Now, concentrate very 
hard on keeping it straight, you need to spot and correct any yaw the 
instant it happens, which it will.
If, or should I say when?!? you land mainwheel first, you must continue to 
fly the airplane until it stops, much harder because the effect of the 
ground adds more variables
Graham 


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