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Old 1st May 2004 | 20:48
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Shaggy Sheep Driver
 
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Spot on, TonyR.

To land any aircraft it MUST be at a speed where it does NOT want to fly anymore.

Certainly true for light aeroplanes. So why do I see so many Cessnas and PA28s banged down level and 3-point, with hardly any flare, then stopped on the brakes? These guys just haven't been taught to fly. Why not?

Teach them in taildraggers? That way, sloppy technique like that would not be tolerated by the aeroplane, and they'd have to learn how to do it correctly.

We'd then all benefit from lower insurance premiums; collapsed noselegs - the result of those trike 3-pointers - are not dramatic, but gthey are very epensive to fix. And every month in the AAIB reports they feature large.

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