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Old 5th September 2002 | 14:50
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Chuck Ellsworth
 
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From: Vancouver Island
Hi again Dragchute:

Yup, Vancouver Island is truly a unique place to live.

I hope to get to Aus. next year to do some flying with HARS, funny thing Aus. is the one continent I have yet to fly to.

Another thought on where to look when landing, try this.

Find yourself a high performance tail wheel airplane maybe a Spitfire or a Mustang. Then try wheel landing the thing by looking way down to the far end of the airport to judge your proximity to the ground. Or better yet find a Grumman Turbine powered Goose, that sucker will do the job just fine.... Why even I screwed up a landing once in the Turbo Goose.

When teaching wheel landings I have them do the curving approach to the touch down so they learn to keep the touch down point in sight at all times, makes wheel landing easy......


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