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Written on February 19, 2018<\/p>\n
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Janet Lansburgh in the PA12<\/strong><\/p>\n ” I\u2019m not always correct, but I do find that I\u2019m often pushing when my students are pulling.\u00a0“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3923,"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":[35,67,171,178,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149"}],"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=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Maybe, from time to time, I\u2019m having an effect on some students.\u00a0I say that because I\u2019ve heard what Janet wrote before, and I have to admit that it \u201cwarms the cockles of my little black heart\u201d.\u00a0 I never have anyone say to me that they could hear my voice in the back of their head, saying \u201cswoop, sink, plant\u201d during a wheel landing, but I\u2019ve had many people say that they hear \u201chold it off\u201d during a three point landing.\u00a0 Occasionally, someone will tell me that they heard me say, \u201ckeep the nose down\u201d.\u00a0These reports do more to reinforce my feelings of productiveness than anything else could ever do.<\/h3>\n
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Recently, Angela, who is pretty sensitive with elevator, told me that she often feels me pushing the stick when she\u2019s pulling.\u00a0 I\u2019m not always correct, but I do find that I\u2019m often pushing when my students are pulling.\u00a0 Why is that.\u00a0 Well, just consider the effect.\u00a0 When we pull, we increase the angle of attack and decrease the airspeed.\u00a0 Could it be that the reason I\u2019m always pushing when close to the ground is to maintain the airspeed so that we have more controllability?\u00a0Hmmm, could be!\u00a0 That\u2019s kind of the essence of \u201cswooping\u201d, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0And, since so many things are interconnected when it comes to flight instruction, one of my exercises, in the irrigation pivot, has as its main purpose getting the student comfortable with being close to the ground and not to fear running into things that we can comfortably clear.\u00a0 Perhaps the instinct to pull is related to a concern about hitting the ground.\u00a0 Or perhaps it\u2019s more akin to our training and the desire to flare.\u00a0 That may be another \u201chmmmm\u201d!\u00a0 This is a subject that \u201cAcme\u201d will never deal with, but I think it\u2019s kind of important!<\/h3>\n
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Happy swooping (and keep yer snoot down!)<\/h3>\n
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Brian<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"