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Old 2nd Oct 2015, 21:48
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Chuck Ellsworth
 
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Interesting ideas here.

I also prefer wheel landings for many reasons.

As to the DC3 it can be three pointed if you so desire, however it does require good height judgement in the hold off.

The three point landing or close to it is useful when operating on wheel skis, we normally selected half wheel out of the ski bottoms when using this technique if the surface was hard or could be hard snow/ice.

Like every other type of airplane handling skills your experience level will dictate the type of landing you decide on for a given landing.

By the way the B18 can be difficult to three point.

And the Turbo Goose down right frightening to three point.

And the Pitts S2B is difficult to wheel land.

As to groundlooping a tail wheel airplane I have to confess I never got to experience that realm of landing or take off.

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