The Hangar

12:00 AM

I basically manipulate the controls until things look and feel right, and 90-95% of the time it's beautiful. (The other 5-10% end with either a thunk or a go-around).

egid

@voretaq7 get a float rating and you'll have a better vocabulary for explaining it ;)

and probably a more consistent technique for doing it

voretaq7

@egid "I basically point the nose at the water until we're wet, then we swim in the direction of the bubbles..." :-P

I'd like to do a seaplane rating one day, but glider is higher on my personal priority list

egid

i'm a big fan of the jacobsen flare for land planes actually

aviationmentor.blogspot.com/2010/07/jacobsons-ladder.html

actually, adding avmentor to the feed

his blog kicks ass

Stack Exchange

egid has made a change to the feeds posted into this room

egid

blerg

voretaq7

12:06 AM

@egid I've read about the Jacobsen flare a few times - that's probably about the best procedural description for what I do

egid

the key is the pitch angle you flare to, and when

ok i am pretty sure that feed should work

Stack Exchange

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Aviation Mentor: Getting Smart About Sleep, Health, and Safety

posted on December 22, 2013 by John Ewing

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Aviation Mentor: Electronic Checklist Redux

posted on January 02, 2014 by John Ewing

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egid

yikes. okay. there.

voretaq7

@egid mainly the when in my experience - the angle is pretty much set in the Cherokee, it's hard to fuck up and land flat unless you're asleep, and I've got the dinky little stabilator so you're not gonna bang the tail :P

egid

i explained the jacobsen flare to a ten year old

and his landings were probably 6/10

on his first intro lesson

it was amazing

maybe he was 12. i forget.

voretaq7

12:09 AM

oddly I find I can't land on calm-wind days - like no matter what I do

egid

grab the pdf on the jacobsen flare, head up with an instructor, and try it out :)

voretaq7

I think 'cuz most of my training was evenings/afternoons in summer/winter when we get funky winds :)

egid

the specific cutoff points help a lot

jacobsonflare.com/jacobsonflare

voretaq7

<- actually happier landing in a crosswind :P

egid

is there really no longer a pdf on the site? what the hell

voretaq7

12:11 AM

@egid yeah it has all the description of the technique but you have to plod through their clicky-graphics :P Welcome to "Web 2.0" -- Content wants to be inaccessible!

@egid you should ask/answer a question on landing flares - good opportunity to talk about the technique, and the question is gonna come up anyway so you might as well write it so it's a good question :-)

also: Free Reps!

egid

yeah, i'll file that away

this site is horrid

scribd.com/doc/39010570/…

voretaq7

@egid yeah, looking at the video & quick-scanning the PDF that's probably about the closest thing to the technique that I've wound up using :-)

uh oh here come the holy wars!

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