The way we were taught in Australia was to touch with one wheel and the
wing tip
This than makes the aircraft turn to that direction and enersa will
cause the other side of the plane to ditch into the water and uses the
wing to stop it from rolling
Also if you go straight in and the plane rolls forward you will wear the
windscreen in your face at great speed not pretty
Martin Boyle
North QLD Australia
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From: Raimo Toivio
To: europa-list@matronics.com
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 4:22 AM
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Re: Ditching checklist
They say it would be a good practise to lock the wheel[s] by brakeing
before ditching.
So the gear will act a little bit longer as a water ski before
sinking.
With mono, I would take the flaps and gear out to lower the speed and
to get a normal landing attitude.
When the flaps hit water masses w speed of say 40 knots, they will act
as a water brake for a while and separate I assume almost immediately.
My boat=C2=B4s top speed is around 58 knots and when jumping from one
wave to another wave I am happy it=C2=B4s stern is 2 inches thick
laminate.
When moderate or more waves (and wind): would you still prefer to land
headwind (and towards waves) or do you elect maybe landing sidewind (and
90 degrees to waves)?
Raimo OH-XRT
From: GRAHAM SINGLETON
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 6:41 PM
To: europa-list@matronics.com
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Re: Ditching checklist
The mono is much less likely to dig in, think of the pitching moment
that the gear exerts as it hits the water.
Graham
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From: Frans Veldman <frans@privatepilotsnl>
To: europa-list@matronics.com
Sent: Tuesday, 4 May, 2010 15:26:36
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Re: Ditching checklist
<frans@privatepilots.nl>
On 05/04/2010 03:13 PM, rampil wrote:
> For the case of the trigear, one can only imagine a worse case.
> It seems unlikely that a trigear can be prevented from digging
> in at the nose and possibly cracking the canopy.
Why does it seem that? Statistics show that tri gear aircraft have no
higher tendency to nose over than rectractables. Unless the Europa has
a
feature not found on other tri gear airplane, I don't think it is
worse
than comparable aircraft.
Contrary, I think the monowheel is worse in this aspect. It has a
tendency on land already to nose over if you brake firmly, and I don't
see why this would be different on water.
With the tri gear, before the nose is able to touch the water, the
gear
has dissipated already quite some of the energy (either due to drag in
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