3 Point Attitude...
Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2018 10:44 am
I'm a new owner, so be gentle with me...
It seems to me that the taildragger Sonex has a particularly shallow angle of incidence sat on it's undercarriage. I think this might not make the best of an aeroplane with commendable low speed handling and a very wide speed range when operating from the shorted grass runways we typicallaly have over here. I find that in a fully-flared landing I will always have the tailwheel touching down first, and sometimes would like to be able to unstick at a lower speed on shorter runways. I have both the larger wheels and larger tailwheel which I imagine sort of cancel each other out in terms of incidence. Has anyone ever given any thought to longer undercarriage legs or another means of getting the 3 point attitude steeper or am I missing some sort of major point/disadvantage/lethal gotcha.....
I guess the other relevant point is that we're not allowed to have the last stage of flap over here as our LAA decided that it results in too great a pitch change...
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It seems to me that the taildragger Sonex has a particularly shallow angle of incidence sat on it's undercarriage. I think this might not make the best of an aeroplane with commendable low speed handling and a very wide speed range when operating from the shorted grass runways we typicallaly have over here. I find that in a fully-flared landing I will always have the tailwheel touching down first, and sometimes would like to be able to unstick at a lower speed on shorter runways. I have both the larger wheels and larger tailwheel which I imagine sort of cancel each other out in terms of incidence. Has anyone ever given any thought to longer undercarriage legs or another means of getting the 3 point attitude steeper or am I missing some sort of major point/disadvantage/lethal gotcha.....
I guess the other relevant point is that we're not allowed to have the last stage of flap over here as our LAA decided that it results in too great a pitch change...
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