Getting used to the Jabiru

[poteroo]

Loss of directional control is the reason given for runway or strip excursions in the accident reports.

 

As everyone has posted - keeping the aircraft straight is easier if you use the marked centreline, but it could just as easy be a set of vehicle wheeltracks, sheep tracks, or lines of stubble left from last years crop. Any set of lines which are parallel to your intended landing direction are useful. With current no-till seeded crops, you can often land along the sowing direction for several weeks after sowing - it's as solid as. Whatever - if you don't look down the side of the cowling of a side-by-side aircraft, you'll not maintain directional control.

 

happy days,

 

 

[Nezzie]

Hi All,

 

Ideas & "tape"! What of it with a crosswind, or wind gusting, or variable winds? As an instructor, I teach that the student has their "butt on the centre-line", (and if the aircraft is pointing a little to the R, or L, then that is where the wind is coming from - be prepared). If it is pointing both ways from time to time - you have variable winds. (you might not have the luxury of a windsock, or it could be u/s).

 

Cheers for now,

 

Nezzie