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Old 17th February 2004 | 00:17
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formationfoto
 
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My preference is for wheel landings as it provides a greater degree of control and facilitates a wider range of options. You can ride the gusts if you have enough runway and allow the speed to decay slowly whilst keeping the tail in the air and therefore not masked. I would only go for the 3 pointer when the runway was too short to allow the flexibilities described above. With high wing tail draggers the two pointer (into wind wing and tailwheel) can be a good option and as a practice piece I used to run the Luscombe along the runway like that before dropping the other main wheel.
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