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Narrow airstrips and landing zones

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Narrow airstrips and landing zones

Narrow airstrips are a challenge and require the pilot to be precise, here some examples and techniques I use.

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Re: Narrow airstrips and landing zones

Excellent flying Larry. I would like, for instructional purposes, to clear up something that might confuse pilots watching the video. You mention using rudder and aileron to line up. Watching from the ground camera point of view, however, I see no wing wagging on short final. The aileron banks the wing. Once on the centerline extended and no longer in a turn to capture the centerline extended, you are using rudder only effectively to either bracket or at least maintain the tracks on the ground centered at what appears to be between your legs. We watching the video have the centered in the cockpit camera point of view as in a tandem airplane. In the side by side Cessnas, to be as precise as you are, you are using a point on the cowl left of the prop or using what appears to be between your legs. Some pilots say they are maintaining a certain angle with the prop, but that is not as precise as you are landing. The evidence with the average pilot at the airport is the many black tire marks left of the centerline and few black tire marks on or to the right of the centerline. They are not as precise as you are in this video because they are using the center of the nose (prop) in side by side seating. Also at the airport I see a lot of wing wagging (turning a bit left and then a bit right) which is not as precise as bracketing the centerline with rudder only. If we mess up and get misaligned, rudder only yaw is far superior to coordinated turning because a certain amount of adverse yaw generally happens and in turns we spend as much time misaligned as aligned. Precision demands constant alignment. Dynamic proactive rudder (walking the rudders a bit) nails the centerline.

Ag work using a levee for a near to work strip requires similar precision. Good job.

Good job and thanks for the video.
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