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The Tailwheel Town Cessna 140 practicing three-point landings in the dirt at Prineville. (photo by Bert Garrison.)<\/strong><\/p>\n “Lately, I\u2019ve changed the way in which we do multiples.\u00a0 Now, we conduct the first landing as a Wheelie on the left side of the center line.\u00a0 Then we power up, get back in the air and slide over to the right side with an alternating side slip.\u00a0 The heading never changes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4354,"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":[35,165,173,174,178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632"}],"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=4632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}But I think I may have finally figgered it out.\u00a0 Remember that I\u2019m not too bright and that other instructors and the heads of multiple flying schools have probably beat me to it.<\/h3>\n
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The reason is that the earth is hard.\u00a0 If you make a mistake and bust an altitude, you will simply collide with air.\u00a0 Lots of the mistakes you made at altitude will result in simply colliding with air.\u00a0 But, as the statisticians will be happy to agree on, it\u2019s landing the airplane when we come in contact with the hard, hurting ground, that we so often come to grief.<\/h3>\n
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So what can we do to avoid that painful occurrence, without landing?\u00a0 Well, ya can’t! \u00a0But you CAN include some really fun details that will result in a lot more than simply landing. \u00a0First of all, let\u2019s remember what we\u2019re trying to accomplish.\u00a0 We\u2019re trying to create competence where a lack of it currently exists.\u00a0 So, the way I see it, we need to both practice and create maneuvers which will increase that competence.\u00a0 We also have to admit that cost is a very real limiting factor and we\u2019ve got to do what we can to keep it down.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I\u2019ve come to be so dependent on a couple of maneuvers. They are Multiples and Slaloms.\u00a0 As I\u2019ve pointed out in \u201cBrian\u2019s Flying Book\u201d, a flyer is already more efficient by simply using the Tailwheel Town pattern.\u00a0 It is less than half the size of the pattern which most schools use, so it alone will more than double the frequency of landings.\u00a0 But if we really want to up the number of landings, let\u2019s do multiples.\u00a0 Multiples are simply a series of landings and takeoffs during one approach.\u00a0 By transitioning from landing to takeoff in such a short amount of time, it really builds competence.\u00a0 On a five-thousand-foot runway, a flier can get in five landings.\u00a0 By including the advantage of the tiny pattern, the flier is getting nearly ten times the number of landings as the \u201cAcme\u201d flier!<\/h3>\n
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Lately, I\u2019ve changed the way in which we do multiples.\u00a0 Now, we conduct the first landing as a Wheelie on the left side of the center line.\u00a0 Then we power up, get back in the air and slide over to the right side with an alternating side slip.\u00a0 The heading never changes.\u00a0 Then we conduct a three-point landing on the right side.\u00a0 The wait for the airplane to stall during the three point, combined with the addition of an alternating side slip to change sides, will usually reduce the number of landings we get, but the loss in number of landings is easily made up for by the increase in competence that results from this very complex maneuver.<\/h3>\n
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The other maneuver which can really increase competence is the Slalom, usually combined with the landing in a turn.\u00a0 I\u2019m always amazed at the trepidation with which most fliers approach this maneuver.\u00a0 Perhaps the reason I\u2019m amazed is that these two maneuvers teach competence when the elements put the airplane in an unusual attitude during landing or takeoff.\u00a0 And you know something?\u00a0 That\u2019s when most wrecks occur!<\/h3>\n
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The above maneuvers are featured in videos on www.tailwheelersjournal.com.\u00a0 Take a look at them and see what you think.\u00a0 The\u00a0 Slaloms, Multiples and Landing in a Turn can be self-taught by working at them gradually, or you can schedule some time at Tailwheel Town and I\u2019ll introduce you to them myself.<\/h3>\n
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Why landings?\u00a0 Because that\u2019s how we build competence.\u00a0 But by choosing to practice Multiples, Slaloms and Landings in a Turn, we REALLY get good.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about\u2026.<\/h3>\n
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