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Old 15th Dec 2005, 17:20
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funfly
 
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Thanks for all your contributions guys!
Another point that no-one suggested is that my (new) aircraft has a bl**dy great Lycoming IO/360 hanging on the front, which is quite a weight for a fibreglass aeroplane. I am now of the opinion that this extra weight makes the 'feel' of the roundout quite different than, for example, a PA28. When it starts to settle down the pull force on the stick to keep the nose off the deck is more than I have previously been used to and maybe this is why I am not pulling it back enough.
The worst thing for me is loosing 'face' after having been able to land a whole range of aircraft without problems for the last three years - we're all human
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