{"id":3271,"date":"2015-02-27T05:08:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T13:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.mechadigital.net\/?p=3271"},"modified":"2021-08-26T20:37:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:37:56","slug":"124-late-night-meetings-re-visited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/124-late-night-meetings-re-visited\/","title":{"rendered":"#124 Late Night Meetings Re-Visited"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a Tailwheeler\u2019s Journal article called \u201cLate Night Meetings\u201d, I accused all of my students of attending such candlelit meetings in a darkened hangar late at night.\u00a0 Their purpose, I claimed, was to conspire against me and do all the things that students routinely do to drive their flight instructors nuts.<\/h2>\n

Most of my students realized why I wrote that article.\u00a0 It was a tongue-in-cheek look at the fact that there are certain things which most students do.\u00a0 By learning about those things, the student can avoid flying pitfalls and advance faster.\u00a0\"DSCN2746\"<\/a><\/h2>\n

Recently I was flying with Jim, one of my favorite students and a guy who has taken to flying.\u00a0 I started him a while back and he\u2019s now a Private Pilot.\u00a0 Jim has a mind like a steel trap and sometimes surprises me by quoting me back to myself.<\/h2>\n

We were working on multiple landings.\u00a0 This is a fun series of maneuvers where a flyer touches down, usually in a wheel landing, then opens the throttle and lifts off (you can see our video on it by selecting this link). But instead of continuing on, he lowers the nose to keep the plane about five feet off the ground.\u00a0 He lets it accelerate, then chops the power and executes another landing, followed by another takeoff.\u00a0 On a five thousand foot runway I can easily do five landing and takeoff cycles.\u00a0 But if a student only does two, he\u2019s already doubled what the Acme Flying School student is getting.\u00a0 Couple that with our practice of flying a tight, low pattern and you may have a student who is getting more than four or five times the landings of his buddy at the Acme Flying School. \u00a0He\u2019s also developing extra skills during the transitions between each landing and takeoff.<\/h2>\n

I was sharing a secret with Jim.\u00a0 \u201cSimply keep that nose down on final in order to conserve your energy in the form of airspeed.\u00a0 Sound familiar?\u201d I asked. \u00a0\u201cHow many times do you think you\u2019ve heard me say, \u2018keep the nose down\u2019?\u201d<\/h2>\n

Jim immediately explained, \u201cOh yeh, we talked about that in the last late night meeting.\u00a0 In fact we all were doing \u2018Brian impressions\u2019.\u00a0 We took turns like a bunch of parrots, saying, \u2018keep the nose down\u2019, \u2018more right rudder\u2019, \u2018Ray Charles can see that, \u2018hear that flapping? It\u2019s a chicken coming home to roost\u2019 and so on.\u201d<\/h2>\n

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If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I\u2019m properly flattered. We all love it when we find out that someone is actually listening to us!<\/h2>\n

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I\u2019m also reminded of what fun it is to fly with folks who get as big a kick out of this game as I do.<\/h2>\n

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Happy Swooping!<\/h2>\n

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Brian<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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