Yes foxmoth, but you said "...if you do that and then imagine it at 5' you might think again..."
Who lands at 5'? Not me...The science of landing 'properly' is to pull to and through the stall at the same instant that your wheels touch (either all three at once for a tailwheel, or just the mains in a C172). I like to hear the stall warning start at the same time as the rumbling from the wheels. This requires stalling at about 1", not 1'.
The art and finesse of landing like this is to do it gradually and choose your spot. Just recently I have seen a few of my students twitch the c/c back to try and pull through the stall from too high a speed (flying Cessnas) but the Cessna wing doesn't stall in an instant like they think it does, so up we go in the classic balloon scenario. From what I can remember Tomahawks will stall if pulled quickly, the small Grummans I've flown definitely do, haven't flown a Citabria but have heard good things about all parts of it (tailwheel, aerobatic, fabric and a stick are good starts!).
Kabz, when you were flying gliders, did you feel it stall just before the touchdown? I've watched for years here but haven't flown them but they seem to spend a long time floating just above the ground, and I can't tell if they stall or fly it onto the deck. It seems to me that waiting for the stall would make the tail dig in and catapult the pilot into the ground....
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