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Old 11th June 2004 | 09:59
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NinjaBill

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Joined: Apr 2003
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From: Newcastle, England
When I first decided to fly the Cap 10, instead of a C150 for my ppl (after doing about 10 hrs in the c150) i was told it would be a little more difficult to land, but if i kept to the speeds in the POH, and landed not far past the numbers, then it wouldnt be a problem, and that was landing on about 600m of grass, and that it may be a bit more difficult to taxi.

Now after reading a few days of pprune, I find that not only landing a taildragger is almost impossibly hard, that I must have almost suicidal tendancies for trying to land on GRASS as well.

In fact, i think i might as well stop it right now, and find somewhere with at least 2000m of tarmac before landing anything more tricky than a pa28, which i shall do so using a trickle of power, while approaching at POH speed + 20kts, and landing half way up the runway, before 'roasting the brakes'

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