I had confirmed a Monday morning flying session with a primary student and she replied, \u201cSee you for Monday morning multiples\u201d. She had discovered the maneuver which we use here at Tailwheel Town to develop the reflexes necessary for landing.\u00a0 Coincidently, she and I found ourselves practicing Multiple Landings during our Monday morning sessions.<\/h3>\n![\"one](\"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/one-wheel-768x1024.jpg\")
<\/a>Even a one-wheeled landing can be followed with mulitples.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMultiples are pretty much what the name implies. First we swoop to the runway with a virtually non-existent final from a tight pattern.\u00a0 We touchdown short, normally with a one-wheel landing and, keeping the tail up we go for the multiples. We do them with a little mnemonic mantra: \u201cpower, pitch, pitch, power\u201d, we chant as we run down the runway in our little taildragger, executing as many as five or six landings and takeoffs in one touch-and-go cycle.\u00a0 It\u2019s called \u201cMultiple Landings\u201d, or just \u201cMultiples\u201d.\u00a0 It\u2019s challenging, difficult\u2026\u00a0 and fun as hell! You can see a video demonstration on this website. \u00a0Same title!<\/h3>\n![\"Waterski](\"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Waterski-Cub-sm.jpg\")
<\/a>Multiples give a flyer a chance to practice lots of fine elevator control, a useful skill if one planes on doing a little waterskiing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHer delight and eagerness were evident in the way she said that.\u00a0 And I\u2019m convinced that, for all the technical and sometimes draggy stuff we have to teach to a private pilot applicant, one of the most important things we can do is to remember why they are learning to fly and to make sure that we who teach flying never forget what it\u2019s all about.<\/h3>\nWe\u2019ve come a long way in our pursuit of the thrill and value of flying.\u00a0 Think about those poor saps before the Wright Brothers who thought that feathers had something to do with it.\u00a0 They strapped feathered wing-like attachments to their arms, then leapt off the roofs of barns with enthusiasm.\u00a0 A modern flying student could have told them that the human\u2019s arms not only do not have the necessary type of musculature for flapping, but are also unable to even hold the weight of the flier if the wings DID work.\u00a0 It would be like performing a ring gymnast\u2019s \u201ciron cross\u201d with more than one \u201cG\u201d and with no conditioning!\u00a0 But if eagerness is the disregard for the facts and the sheer belief that feathers\u2019ll make the durn thing work, then those early inventors sure had heaps of eagerness. \u00a0When I was a kid, there was an already-old sign at the stable where I hung out.\u00a0 It featured a picture of \u201cGoofy\u201d with a determined look.\u00a0 The caption underneath said, \u201cMuh mind\u2019s made up; don\u2019t confuse me with the facts!\u201d<\/h3>\n![\"Multiples](\"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Multiples-head-on-1.jpg\")
<\/a>” This maneuver is not only fun\u2026 it\u2019s ECONOMICAL!”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBut now that we\u2019ve overcome all those early obstacles to manned flight, we\u2019ve become a bit hidebound in our approach to flight training.\u00a0 We must never forget, not only that this is supposed to be fun, but also that we must constantly be working to make the whole flight training experience both effective and enjoyable.<\/h3>\nNot everyone is ready for multiples, but I believe that as soon as a student pilot is capable, they should start practicing them.\u00a0 They have an added benefit.\u00a0 With today\u2019s high cost of flying, the multiple does more than its share to efficiently utilize the student\u2019s flight time.\u00a0 If you combine the extremely small pattern we fly at tailwheel town with multiple landings, you could be looking at a between four and TEN times the landings per hour that the hidebound folks at the modern Acme Flying School provide.\u00a0 This maneuver is not only fun\u2026 it\u2019s ECONOMICAL!<\/h3>\nAnd that\u2019s not to be sneezed at!<\/h3>\nHappy Swooping!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“We do them with a little mnemonic mantra: \u201cpower, pitch, pitch, power\u201d, we chant as we run down the runway in our little taildragger, executing as many as five or six landings and takeoffs in one touch-and-go cycle. It\u2019s called \u201cMultiple Landings\u201d, or just \u201cMultiples\u201d. It\u2019s challenging, difficult\u2026 and fun as hell!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,67,102,173,174,178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"one](\"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/one-wheel-1.jpg\")
<\/a>Multiples are pretty much what the name implies. First we swoop to the runway with a virtually non-existent final from a tight pattern.\u00a0 We touchdown short, normally with a one-wheel landing and, keeping the tail up we go for the multiples. We do them with a little mnemonic mantra: \u201cpower, pitch, pitch, power\u201d, we chant as we run down the runway in our little taildragger, executing as many as five or six landings and takeoffs in one touch-and-go cycle.\u00a0 It\u2019s called \u201cMultiple Landings\u201d, or just \u201cMultiples\u201d.\u00a0 It\u2019s challenging, difficult\u2026\u00a0 and fun as hell! You can see a video demonstration on this website. \u00a0Same title!<\/h3>\n<\/a>Multiples give a flyer a chance to practice lots of fine elevator control, a useful skill if one planes on doing a little waterskiing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHer delight and eagerness were evident in the way she said that.\u00a0 And I\u2019m convinced that, for all the technical and sometimes draggy stuff we have to teach to a private pilot applicant, one of the most important things we can do is to remember why they are learning to fly and to make sure that we who teach flying never forget what it\u2019s all about.<\/h3>\nWe\u2019ve come a long way in our pursuit of the thrill and value of flying.\u00a0 Think about those poor saps before the Wright Brothers who thought that feathers had something to do with it.\u00a0 They strapped feathered wing-like attachments to their arms, then leapt off the roofs of barns with enthusiasm.\u00a0 A modern flying student could have told them that the human\u2019s arms not only do not have the necessary type of musculature for flapping, but are also unable to even hold the weight of the flier if the wings DID work.\u00a0 It would be like performing a ring gymnast\u2019s \u201ciron cross\u201d with more than one \u201cG\u201d and with no conditioning!\u00a0 But if eagerness is the disregard for the facts and the sheer belief that feathers\u2019ll make the durn thing work, then those early inventors sure had heaps of eagerness. \u00a0When I was a kid, there was an already-old sign at the stable where I hung out.\u00a0 It featured a picture of \u201cGoofy\u201d with a determined look.\u00a0 The caption underneath said, \u201cMuh mind\u2019s made up; don\u2019t confuse me with the facts!\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/a>” This maneuver is not only fun\u2026 it\u2019s ECONOMICAL!”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBut now that we\u2019ve overcome all those early obstacles to manned flight, we\u2019ve become a bit hidebound in our approach to flight training.\u00a0 We must never forget, not only that this is supposed to be fun, but also that we must constantly be working to make the whole flight training experience both effective and enjoyable.<\/h3>\nNot everyone is ready for multiples, but I believe that as soon as a student pilot is capable, they should start practicing them.\u00a0 They have an added benefit.\u00a0 With today\u2019s high cost of flying, the multiple does more than its share to efficiently utilize the student\u2019s flight time.\u00a0 If you combine the extremely small pattern we fly at tailwheel town with multiple landings, you could be looking at a between four and TEN times the landings per hour that the hidebound folks at the modern Acme Flying School provide.\u00a0 This maneuver is not only fun\u2026 it\u2019s ECONOMICAL!<\/h3>\nAnd that\u2019s not to be sneezed at!<\/h3>\nHappy Swooping!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“We do them with a little mnemonic mantra: \u201cpower, pitch, pitch, power\u201d, we chant as we run down the runway in our little taildragger, executing as many as five or six landings and takeoffs in one touch-and-go cycle. It\u2019s called \u201cMultiple Landings\u201d, or just \u201cMultiples\u201d. It\u2019s challenging, difficult\u2026 and fun as hell!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,67,102,173,174,178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>Her delight and eagerness were evident in the way she said that.\u00a0 And I\u2019m convinced that, for all the technical and sometimes draggy stuff we have to teach to a private pilot applicant, one of the most important things we can do is to remember why they are learning to fly and to make sure that we who teach flying never forget what it\u2019s all about.<\/h3>\nWe\u2019ve come a long way in our pursuit of the thrill and value of flying.\u00a0 Think about those poor saps before the Wright Brothers who thought that feathers had something to do with it.\u00a0 They strapped feathered wing-like attachments to their arms, then leapt off the roofs of barns with enthusiasm.\u00a0 A modern flying student could have told them that the human\u2019s arms not only do not have the necessary type of musculature for flapping, but are also unable to even hold the weight of the flier if the wings DID work.\u00a0 It would be like performing a ring gymnast\u2019s \u201ciron cross\u201d with more than one \u201cG\u201d and with no conditioning!\u00a0 But if eagerness is the disregard for the facts and the sheer belief that feathers\u2019ll make the durn thing work, then those early inventors sure had heaps of eagerness. \u00a0When I was a kid, there was an already-old sign at the stable where I hung out.\u00a0 It featured a picture of \u201cGoofy\u201d with a determined look.\u00a0 The caption underneath said, \u201cMuh mind\u2019s made up; don\u2019t confuse me with the facts!\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/a>” This maneuver is not only fun\u2026 it\u2019s ECONOMICAL!”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBut now that we\u2019ve overcome all those early obstacles to manned flight, we\u2019ve become a bit hidebound in our approach to flight training.\u00a0 We must never forget, not only that this is supposed to be fun, but also that we must constantly be working to make the whole flight training experience both effective and enjoyable.<\/h3>\nNot everyone is ready for multiples, but I believe that as soon as a student pilot is capable, they should start practicing them.\u00a0 They have an added benefit.\u00a0 With today\u2019s high cost of flying, the multiple does more than its share to efficiently utilize the student\u2019s flight time.\u00a0 If you combine the extremely small pattern we fly at tailwheel town with multiple landings, you could be looking at a between four and TEN times the landings per hour that the hidebound folks at the modern Acme Flying School provide.\u00a0 This maneuver is not only fun\u2026 it\u2019s ECONOMICAL!<\/h3>\nAnd that\u2019s not to be sneezed at!<\/h3>\nHappy Swooping!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“We do them with a little mnemonic mantra: \u201cpower, pitch, pitch, power\u201d, we chant as we run down the runway in our little taildragger, executing as many as five or six landings and takeoffs in one touch-and-go cycle. It\u2019s called \u201cMultiple Landings\u201d, or just \u201cMultiples\u201d. It\u2019s challenging, difficult\u2026 and fun as hell!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,67,102,173,174,178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>But now that we\u2019ve overcome all those early obstacles to manned flight, we\u2019ve become a bit hidebound in our approach to flight training.\u00a0 We must never forget, not only that this is supposed to be fun, but also that we must constantly be working to make the whole flight training experience both effective and enjoyable.<\/h3>\nNot everyone is ready for multiples, but I believe that as soon as a student pilot is capable, they should start practicing them.\u00a0 They have an added benefit.\u00a0 With today\u2019s high cost of flying, the multiple does more than its share to efficiently utilize the student\u2019s flight time.\u00a0 If you combine the extremely small pattern we fly at tailwheel town with multiple landings, you could be looking at a between four and TEN times the landings per hour that the hidebound folks at the modern Acme Flying School provide.\u00a0 This maneuver is not only fun\u2026 it\u2019s ECONOMICAL!<\/h3>\nAnd that\u2019s not to be sneezed at!<\/h3>\nHappy Swooping!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
And that\u2019s not to be sneezed at!<\/h3>\nHappy Swooping!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“We do them with a little mnemonic mantra: \u201cpower, pitch, pitch, power\u201d, we chant as we run down the runway in our little taildragger, executing as many as five or six landings and takeoffs in one touch-and-go cycle. It\u2019s called \u201cMultiple Landings\u201d, or just \u201cMultiples\u201d. It\u2019s challenging, difficult\u2026 and fun as hell!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,67,102,173,174,178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}