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

hey...easy on us Cherokee pilots...and by the way..i freely admit I could groundloop ANY taildragger in less than 30
feet!!

> -------Original Message-------
> From: Marc <averys_98550@comcast.net>
> 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. The video landing appears to have more crab than I think
> there was in actuallity due maianly to camera angle. Notice that it
> apppears that his taxi angle is sideways too. I'd say other than a slight
> skip he did just fine,, and how many of you actually grease every landing?
>
> --- In [LINK: mailto:Sport_Aircraft%40yahoogroups.com]
> Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "A. Censor" <acensor@...> wrote:
> >
> > It's easy, and maybe unfair, to be a Monday morning quarterback (or in
> this case a one-the-ground pilot critic) but I do believe this pilot missed
> an important trick that should in my opinion be in the toolkit of all light
> aircraft with low stall/touchdown speeds when landing a strip with just one
> runway with heavy crosswinds:
> >
> >
> > Decades ago I was in the co-pilots seat in a Luscombe in an almost
> identical situation and airstrip with 25 to 30 mph winds directly across
> the only runway.
> >
> > Keep in mind a Luscombe stalls (touches down) at only about 45mph.
> >
> > Instead of trying to crab cross wind we just landed on the grass (this
> video shows the pilot had plenty of grass on both sides of the runway)
> DIRECTLY into the wind. Screw the runway.
> >
> > Effective touch down speed was about 20 mph with NO crosswind to deal
> with. Rolled to a stop in less feet than it takes to park four cars.
> >
> > Worth remembering, in my opinion, if ever in a similar spot.
> >
>
>
>

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