My Profile

Blog RSS
Blog
Forum RSS
Forum

landing

I usually don't write about space ships in this website but the coming of a new book that tells the story of SpaceShipOne "SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History" is a good enough reason. The book
Wednesday, 04 June 2008
The Hottest News Anywhere!
(Blogs / From the BlogSphere)
...te: Everybody cannot learn to fly gliders. Many a person is unable to get the hang of making turns and landings and sensing the wind currents. It has been found that among groups of 30 normal peop...
Monday, 12 May 2008
Volkslogger won\'t automate
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...everal ays ago I circled over and through the start (on course) three times but nothing would register. On landing I put the trace on a computer and all indicated OK - no problem at all - my whole fli...
Sunday, 24 August 2008
Used nav instruments
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
Get a cheap GPS and strap it to your leg with velcro. Enter in the possible landing-out spots and airfields. Using the polar (and an article in Soaring several years ago (www.ssa.org/Magazines/ListOnl
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
... for practice quite frequently. I asked him that if it would be possible to sequence for a non motorized landing and then power up for taxi. He did not like the idea... I asked him if he thought tha...
Saturday, 02 August 2008
What glider if not a Speed Astir?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...ack with a Kestrel is the speed control (the airbrakes make a nice noise and that is about all) needed for landing: getting into a short field, or even a long one can be a challenge but with the right...
Saturday, 02 August 2008
Speed Astir II B
(Forums / General Discussions)
...t thermal too slow. About 48-52 knots is good for me. Where the name Speed disAstir came from eludes me. Landing. Landing is a dream. Follow the Flight manual and you won't go wrong. Full Flap at ...
Thursday, 31 July 2008
PEZ's first glider ride
(Forums / General Discussions)
...rl, never met a trucker or glider pilot she didn't love. Her facilities included a truck-turn-around and a landing strip. The *House* had a rotating beacon (red) mounted on the roof so that lost souls...
Thursday, 31 July 2008
Movie, "Winged Migration" on STARZ this Sat
(Forums / General Discussions)
...a. In this movie, the father has a wire snap during the 'migration' and he spirals down to a crashish type landing and breaks his arm. The movie was based on the inital attempt to lead geese to thei...
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
Aerotow rope drogue chute?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...a little drougue chute near the glider end of the aerotow rope to fly the rings higher during approach and landing. Does that ring any bells? If so I would appreciate some information - or did I just ...
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Long Tow Rope Pros & Cons
(Forums / General Discussions)
...to complacency - will later be confronted with 150'. 3. longer tow rope hanging behind towplane during its landing. 4. more rope to handle and untangle - I've had to clear it off the runway in a hurry...
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Gliders in the New Dulles NASM
(Forums / General Discussions)
...he 1933 Bowlus Albatross built for Warren aton. Mahogany skins. The German Trainer is a Grunau Baby with a landing light in the nose. There probably is a story there somewhere to explain the light.....
Monday, 21 July 2008
Briegleb 12B - Opinions?
(Forums / General Discussions)
...6's and K8's....a bit slower than some, but they fly very nice, are quite forgiving and when you do end up landing out can do so slowly, predictably and safely.....and if you're going to fly locally l...
Saturday, 12 July 2008
Student-Instructor question (USA)
(Forums / General Discussions)
...as received: (1) Flight training at night on night flying procedures that includes takeoffs, approaches, landings, and go-arounds at night at the airport where the solo flight will be conducted; (...
Wednesday, 18 June 2008
Soaring in an Airplane (Katana DA-C1)
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...r a couple hours of cold soaking the engine, it just wouldn't start. So he also had quite a few dead-stick landings :) The barograph was attached to the firewall behind the instrument panel and prov...
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Gliders for the larger pilot
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...vely high whenever you fly. You need a glider with a large, comfortable cockpit and a very strong wing and landing gear. The Genesis 2 wing failed in testing at 19 g's assuming a 310 Lb. pilot/equipme...
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Concept 70 opinions
(Forums / Pictures)
...or a long time. He liked it. Seemed to be a well built ship. Had a pretty large cockpit. It was capable of landing very short with it's landing flaps. I helped assemble it many times. I seem to rememb...
Saturday, 07 June 2008
Jantar 2A opinions sought
(Forums / General Discussions)
... covers. I enjoy the long wing feelings other than when I'm dry flying rough rotor low on the peaks. Happy Landings, Mitch Herold/CO...
Saturday, 07 June 2008
Flaps and V-Tails of Death
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
Hi all, I'm here to report that I cheated death and survived a flight in a glider with the dreaded 'Landing Flaps and V-Tails of Death'. Jim Harper graciously allowed me to fly his beautiful HP-16.
Saturday, 07 June 2008
ELTs are a joke
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...gps signal, center would know right away it's just a helicopter sitting in the hanger an hour after a firm landing. A millisecond burst would require very little power, and could encode position, airc...
Tuesday, 03 June 2008
OPINIONS ON AN LS3A
(Forums / General Discussions)
...ty in turbulant air. No gel coat. A tailboom which you probably can't break during a groundloop, off field landing, or bounced landing although anything is possible, just not as likely as with a regul...
Sunday, 01 June 2008
What next?
(Forums / General Discussions)
...it was such a fantastic surprise. An amazing feeling .... and on a never note. my first solo I did my best landing ever, and never since have I been able to make such a perfect landing (the next 2 sol...
Sunday, 18 May 2008
Wave Off on Early Tow Question
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
anyone know how short a pawnee can land? Might be in consideration when landing on the same runway.
Saturday, 17 May 2008
Open Cirrus - hints for new owner?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...ect line up. I never used the tail chute. I found that there was sufficient air brakes for every off field landing, although all of my off field landings were in Texas where I could generally find lar...
Saturday, 05 April 2008
Glider clubs on public airports (USA)
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...ow the FBO operator has supported us and he has stood his ground when the county manager found out we were landing on the grass and not the pavement. I will ask our FBO if there is any written docum...
Monday, 17 March 2008
Carrying the POH
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...n of aircraft, means a broad grouping of aircraft having similar characteristics of propulsion, flight, or landing. Examples include: airplane; rotorcraft; glider; balloon; landplane; and seaplane. ...
Monday, 10 March 2008
Launch/Landing Logging
(Forums / Tips & Tricks)
I'm looking at improving our clubs launch/landing logs by either purchasing or writing a PDA based logging system. Does anyone have any experiences?
Sunday, 02 March 2008
loss to soaring
(Forums / General Discussions)
...rs and one of the safest pilots I knew. I remember one evening he was taking extra circuit tows to get his landings down perfectly in his PIK. This was a man who flew for a living and flew well alread...
Friday, 22 February 2008
Winglet analysis
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...ng that someone tried this (might have been Karl Striedeck), and when they got in ground effect during the landing flair they ran out aileron control and could not keep the non-winglet side from dropp...
Thursday, 21 February 2008
...ew a Discus b for a while, and read the flight manual over, as well as doing some wing repair due to an outlanding near Ontur, Spain. The only carbon fiber I found was in the spar caps. The difference...
Saturday, 16 February 2008
... effect a bag of laundry to cover 400+ km Wind was 5-10 kts on the record day. Start time was around 09:30 landing just at dark. I'd congratulate these guys heartily, but they are all complete nutters...
Sunday, 10 February 2008
Indicated lift vs True lift (or sink)
(Forums / General Discussions)
...by a lot? At least for cross-country flying, it's the glide angle required to your goal, or perhaps a safe landing area that is most useful. This is usually done informally by a simple rule, such as '...
Friday, 08 February 2008
...at the A model has an extremely weak structure. Even the Air Force had several wing separations after hard landings in the A model. It is beyond me that anyone would use these airplanes in such a de...
Monday, 28 January 2008
Glider rating then PPL?
(Forums / Pictures)
...and an airplane anyway since that is what the pilot has always done. It will be difficult to explain why a landing was made in the grass alongside a runway that was blocked by another aircraft. Anot...
Saturday, 26 January 2008
Cheating Death?
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...round' except maybe in mountains or/and wave. If you hit sink strong enough, the worst you'll get is an outlanding. Then, it's just an outlanding, with the techniques and risks of any outlanding. You ...
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
FOR SALE: damaged double seater
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...IANNE' double seater. It was in beautiful condition with superb gel-coat until it experienced an unperfect landing on the airfield: - Fuselage brocken behind wing trailing edge and before the vertical...
Wednesday, 16 January 2008
Tost wheel brake vibration
(Forums / General Discussions)
Hi John, Thanks for the input, though I think we can rule that out from this case: The location is high and dry,
Sunday, 13 January 2008
Make the Valley Appear
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
Many a Hang glider has been pinned to the top of the Whites. Landing up here in sailplane is something I will never live down. MAKE THE VALLEY APPEAR. I told myself I could do this, so do it! Did I ge
Sunday, 13 January 2008
Help!
(Forums / General Discussions)
...her FU24 pilot referred to it as the 'widow maker', due I think to a problem with rolling forward on crash landing. You've probably seen one featured in Mad Max 3 (the one with Tina...
Tuesday, 08 January 2008
Region 3 Boomerang Trophy
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
So, your're saying Tim Mara talked his competition into landing out !!! How does it go ... 'Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time.' Way to go Tim ... you're my hero !!! :-)
Wednesday, 12 December 2007
...r reduction of speed is possible while maintaining the balance of forces. No sailplane when sitting on its landing gear on the ground has an angle of attack equal or very close to the stall angle. How...
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
Color markings on speed indicator
(Forums / General Discussions)
... aircraft but give the guy some credit. Before going solo you should be able to perform a safe circuit and landing with a blank panel. If you can't do this then you shouldn't be flying an aircraft wit...
Saturday, 08 December 2007
Diamont Ls gear parts
(Forums / Professionals)
Looking for landing gears for both an LS-3 and Diamont. Paul Gaines
Friday, 07 December 2007
DG300 gear collapse! Common problem?
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
...the knee joint. I replace an undercarriage leg on a glider which subsequently had a unfortunate retract on landing and I found that the detent locking system at the control handle was still in the loc...
Tuesday, 04 December 2007
connecting Bohli Vario
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
... the knob can be marked accordingly. If more quiestions contact Bohli: http://www.bohli-magnete.ch Happy landings Rudolf...
Saturday, 01 December 2007
Krosno main landing gear
(Forums / Tips & Tricks)
Hello, Does anyone have an oleo inflation adapter for the shock strut for the Krosno. I have tried Barry Aviation and they do not have. Any thoughts on where to get one? I had heard a rumor that t
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
A good manual?
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...now how to use the VOR system at least. Even my iCOM hand held has the capability, and may one day save me landing in a predicament. Out here an outlanding will often result in damage to the aircraft ...
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
eTrex tracklog recording time
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
Last week I flew for five and a half hours, after landing I got the tracklog out of my eTrex and converted it in a IGC file. When I looked at the file in SeeYou I found out that only the last two and
Friday, 23 November 2007
Cost to start XC in US.
(Forums / Off Topic Discussions)
...nd they told me the two extra tows were purely for insurance purposes, so that I'd have the required three landings on type. They were kind enough to charge me for only one of them, which was nice. Th...
Thursday, 22 November 2007
Landing spots between Baker CA, Jean NV
(Forums / Questions and Answers)
I'm looking for a list of landing spots for a 15M ship between Baker CA and Jean NV. I'd also be interested in spots between Harvard strip and Baker. Has anyone actually landed on either Cronese DL? T
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Page: 1 2

Copyright © 2008 Soaring Space