Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Luscombe Crosswind Landing Video

I wasn't trying to be too hard on the Cherokee, but with the olio gear it can make a bad arrival look like a passable landing. Where as the Cessna will kick you back up and make it apparent to all who are watching, you messed up. We had a guy transitioned in from a Cherokee to a Cessna in our flying club. He looked like a jack rabbit bounding down the field for the first few weeks till he learned how to set it down softly on that spring gear.

--- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, <LyleCox@...> wrote:
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> hey...easy on us Cherokee pilots...and by the way..i freely admit I could groundloop ANY taildragger in less than 30
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> > -------Original Message-------
> > From: Marc <averys_98550@...>
> > To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Luscombe Crosswind Landing Video
> > Sent: Jun 09 '11 14:25
I'm not sure who came up with the idea that a Luscomb is such a dragon to land. Who ever it was he must have been a Cherokee pilot on his first conventional gear landings. I've flown the 8A, along with the 7AC, J3, and the Baby Great Lakes. Each have their own particular foibles, but I found the 8A to be a pussy cat, and undeserving of the reputation it seems to have. By far the most challanging of the bunch is the Baby, it hates wheel landings, and is so short coupled and narrow track that you have to really keep on top of it.

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