5/1/2002: 14th hole landing

[sleemanj]

Originally posted by Undertoad


Another fine MSNBC pic. Here, this lady has performed an good landing, which I'm told is any landing that you walk away from.

Ground looks pretty soft, looks like she might have come in hard and fast, a bit much pressure on the nose wheel causing it to collapse, nose dug in and was going quick enough to flip over.

GA aircraft just aren't really designed for rough or out landings.

I've some time in a Thruster (not these ones particular ones) however which are quite capable of this and more :-)



Unfortunatly the club's aircraft bit the dust rather nastily mid last year and the new aircraft, a RANS S6



isn't finished yet (grr, disorganised club committe) so I'm still whistfully looking skyward - *sigh*.

In NZ we are pretty lucky, both of the aircraft above come into our microlight class of aircraft, as well as many other's. Microlight licences have much less restrictive medical requirements, much simpler license requirements (it's managed by a designated organisation not the guvmnt) and of course are cheaper to run in that maintenance is a DIY job for the most part - the draw back for registering as microlights is that we can only do daytime VFR, one passenger only and of course a microlight pilots licence doesn't mean you can fly the tin tops (GA stuff) - then again, tin top pilots can't fly microlights without a microlight pilots licence either. On the agenda at the moment is a rule to allow microlights to be used for hire, and a new recreational pilot licence a bit like the FAA's sport pilot proposal to allow people to fly even larger aircraft with regs similar to microlight class.