Chuck and all,
Several years ago, my OFB Dave Beardsley and I went out to fly some gliders. He just happened to have one of his power planes in the car as well and decided to get it out and let me fly it a couple of times. I had been flying gliders for 20+ years at that time so did not figure the plane would be that hard to fly. He fired it up, took off and handed my the controls. I am flying around having a good time and talking to Dave when I realize he is not answering me anymore. I look over and Dave is back at the car putting together his SuperV. I hollered at Dave and said how do you land this thing? He hollered back if you can't land you can't fly and kept on putting together his plane. I flew a little while longer, shooting a couple trial approaches and then decided to heck with it I would just fly the plane until the engine stopped and land it like a glider. A couple of minutes later the engine died and so I just brought back around made my normal glider approach and landed with it rolling up within about 3 feet from my feet. My first take-off was a whole another story.
See Ya,
Pat
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <soaring@airage.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 11:26 PM
Subject: [RCSE] Dead stick landings
At 11:05 PM 1/30/2005, you wrote:On 1/30/05 20:49 Jared wrote:
> Lol! Speaking of dead stick landings... > > I did my first over Thanksgiving.
You guys do realize that in a glider ALL your landings are dead stick, right??
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bill Malvey
Fifty years ago, everybody did dead stick landings. We flew until the engine quit because we only had one channel. It was over 10 years before I had a model with a motor that would idle low enough to land. Thirty years ago, I was the club instructor and made all my students learn dead stick landings before starting landings with the engine running. That way they couldn't panic and jam on power at touchdown and cartwheel the model.
Chuck Anderson
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