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Old 3rd May 2020, 23:24
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Runaway Gun
 
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I've witnessed a few students raise the nose very high, very early on in the takeoff run. Why? "To get the weight off the weak nosewheel."
But with consequently high drag, degraded forward visibility, lengthened takeoff run, and it being very lose to the stall on liftoff.

Yet the same pilots will happily smash that nose wheel down upon landing...
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