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Old 14th July 2008 | 16:33
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Double Zero
 
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Obidiah,

I am not a pilot but have a fair few hours in as either a 'sitting there' photographer or autopilot when the real pilot gets bored, or indeed conks out on one memorable occasion.

I think your basic message of ' be kind to the airframe ' got lost in techno-speak - I've studied a tiny bit of aerodynamics myself and you obviously have to be careful of lift / drag with the nose up - just a little - but I am surprised no-one as far as I can see has mentioned nose-wheel shimmy.

I was in a C 172 which suffered this to a cringe-making degree; it had been recently serviced on a grass strip where the effect did not make itself apparent, but on tarmac it was reasonably alarming !

Seems to me you have the right idea, and I've flown with the best T.P's going; one for instance would always give a gentle 'feel & pull back' on the stick of a Hawk to judge when it'd unstick - he never went onto the grass, though he did have to stump up for a lot of broken windows after his last ( Mach 1 +, low level ) Lightning flight before finishing with ETPS !

( Hello Tiger, and thanks ! ).

As I say, I think you're on the right lines, treat an aircraft badly and one day...
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