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  by John Heckendorf 2 days ago

  Skybird:
  
  I'm going to print out your response and take it to the airport with me. I'll put on my need board and follow your instructions. My runway is 5500 ft. I really appreciate you taking time to help me out.
  
  I'll let you know how it goes.
  
  Heck.
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  by Skybird Triker 3 days ago

  John.
  I was have the same problems with my landings. My instructor told me to go out on the runway on a calm day and fly up and down the runway without going above 20 ft. For 2 hours I would take off fly to the other end and land over and over again.
  
  Just get your rpm up to cruise. It will take a little longer to get off but you can easily control your altitude with pitch control. Just make the first ones short hops to get the feel of flying in ground effect.
  
  You cam just slowly let off the power and you will make the smoothest landings ever. Try to maintain the same height the length of the runway. Actually I was flying about 2/3 of the runway so you have plenty of landing room. If there is any wind at all make the down wind runs much shorter.
  
  You can actually pull the bar back and land at cruise or you can let off the throttle and glide in. If you get up higher (I did several times) watch your airspeed so you don't stall. Just a tap on the throttle will keep you up in the air for another 50 ft or so. If you have a problem go ahead and take off and go around the patch. For me the whole trick to a good landing was to learn how to do a low pass.
  
  After 2 hours and about 50 landings I did not have any problems landing any more.
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  by Mike-in- Thailand 18 days ago

  Hi John - if you're used to flying with an instructor in the rear then the loss of this weight (and dampening) will make a BIG difference to the turbulence you feel at the controls. Mike
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  by Larry Mednick 18 days ago

  Hi John, to answer a couple of questions...
  
  remember your stall is achieved by your angle of attack. so the hang point will not effect when your wing stalls and at what speed. if anything, going to the slower hole in some cases may bring your compression strut closer to the control bar and not allow you to stall, bringing up your minimum flying speed.
  
  You need to fly during calm conditions for a good 30 hours once solo. Stay out of that stuff. My best guess is you were looking down at the runway instead of looking down the runway and you may have done this because you were trying to be "extra safe" on your solo. I can almost gaurantee you were doing something different than when you were with your instructor. Or perhaps it was just worse conditions, but get some calm air time under your belt and then go back for additional training in the turnbulence when you can absorb the instruction better.
  
  just my 2 cents....
  
  BTW if you go with a NW 15 you can get it with electric in flight trim if you wait a bit. This system is being tested as we speak and currently available on The Reflex 13 wing.
  
  Last thing... slower isn't always easier to fly, especially in turbulence.
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  by Bill Magness 1 month ago

  John,
  I had an edge X, and found the easy wy to lower the kingpost to get into the hanger was to disconect the front verticle post by removing the 2 pins. Then, push the control bar way forward which would tilt the wing back lowering the kingpost. roll the trike in and when clear bring back the bar and attach the post back.
  Bill