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LANDING AN AIRPLANE - for beginners

Most new pilots comfortable with flying circuits/figure 8's but faces problems of landing the aircraft. First, make-up your mind that you are only good to land if you achieve a good final approach; if the approach is all dodgy, you are going to open the throttle fully and go round again. If all going well and nothing much can go wrong, infact, if you chopped the throttle and did nothing more, in all proability it had go down without damage on it. So the important thing is don't over control. Don't rush but smooth things out with a little up elevator but remember:-

TOO LITTLE IS SAFER THAN TOO MUCH,
TOO LATE IS SAFER THAN TOO SOON....

As you aligned the aircraft with your landing strip in it's nose down gliding attitude, with a little of throttle, which we now chop. Keep it straight and let it come on down. At about three feet off the ground gently ease on a little up elevator. If the nose lift easily, it's too fast-- hold the stick where it is and wait. If the nose reluctant or doesn't want to come up, it is close to stalling speed and you can add more up.

BUT REMEMBER--if you use too little elevator, nothing much can go wrong. If you use too much and balloon it, you can do a lot of damage. In a perfect landing, it touches down just on the stall, main wheels first -- we don't need a perfect landing, but just a safe one!

When it touches, let the stick go to neutral. If there's a little bounce, do nothing and let it sort it out itself. If there's a big bounce, let say more than three feet high, bang open the throttle and climb away but not too steeply.

When it comes to rest, taxi it down the landing strip then bring it back to you slowly and away from the spinning propeller. Use the throttle trim or throttle cut from the TX to stop the motor or engine. Now you still have your airplane in ONE PIECE!

Happy landings......

Pics again

Prepare to take-off....

It's me resting after my 1st flight of the day

Concept SR-T fly high...

The old OS still powerful!

Take-off...

Achoi, make sure you control the heli, not the heli control you....

Jai, watch behind you....

Have some drinks guys....

Glad to own Concept SR-T

Some bits installed

Himodel UBEC

Jai, what are you looking at?

At last the Concept 30 SR-T came to life.....

Achoy worked so hard to ensure everything installed back without any missing parts

We still used the original main mast

Look at that ..... All the linkages, the rotor head and the swash assembly put back in placed....

Still we used Kyosho wooden rotor blades

After more than 5 hrs worked, Concept 30 was ready. We filled the fuel tank with fresh nitro.... and the engine came to life!!! We can't believed it!! Done the range checked.... There it goes....

The first hover on 26th January, 2008.... after more than a decade grounded

It hovers so stabled after some trimmings

This Kyosho Concept 30 SR-T finally came to life after grounded for more than a decade..... We installed new servos, new gyro,used fuel tank (from ebay) and some other small parts from Nexus 30. The OS 32MAX SXH(ring) with 3H carb was clean inside and outside with fresh nitro. I will post more pics of this Concept 30 SR-T..... Stay tuned.....

Some pics & set-up

My Caliber 30 with rappy canopy

Choy, you were great, man......

Atan's Mustang repaired

Achoy & Jai setting-up Manaf's Esky

Achoy inspected the CCPM functions

This is what I call a "TEAM WORK"

Spektrum DX7 installed in Esky

Finally the CCPM set-up done....

Saturday Funfly

Jai's 600

Jai, where is your heli?
I can't see it!...

Atan's Spitfire, maiden flight and landed safely.... Good landing Atan!....

North East wind..... Please note, we use telescopic fishing rod for the windsock, easy to carry and errect...

Welcome Manaf and nice Esky.....