Jim,
I read you loud and clear...thanks for your insights. With your Pitts
experience, your brain and toes must be dialed in.
Reflecting on your initial post, I was wondering about whether the
stock-length outriggers were sized to help one stay ahead of the
airplane by giving a visual cue prior to an incipient runway
excursion...and perhaps...the longer outriggers might not. For the
novice mono-driver, that visual cue early on might be helpful, but I
get your point about the wobble being misleading (at least some of the
time). In my mind, I like the notion of stability on rollout afforded
by the longer outriggers...but that's no substitute for direct
experience.
I have +600 hrs in taildraggers, but the're all in my Stinson 108 and
J-3s...pretty benign birds.
Fred
On Sep 20, 2009, at 4:44 PM, <acrojim@cfl.rr.com> <acrojim@cfl.rr.com>
wrote:
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> Fred
>
> I think this is the 4th set of outriggers I have replaced over the
> years. Each set was made longer,about 1/2 inch each time. My
> monowheel is an XS model,and not the classic so there may be a
> difference in lengths of the outriggers as supplied by the factory???
>
> In looking back when I was learning to land the monowheel, FOR ME I
> think the learning curve would have gone better had the outriggers
> been longer... Let me explain....During landings,after touchdown,
> the rocking from side to side of the wings with the short outriggers
> gave me the inpression that the plane was starting to turn to one
> side or the other, and I sometime corrected for a turn, when there
> was no turn. It took a while for my brain and my feet to come
> togather in my mind. Before I started flying the monowheel, I had
> acculuminated 1000 plus hours in a Pitts S-1-S which I owned. My
> perspective of what was going on outside the monowheel during the
> landing roll out, was affected by what I had seen in the Pitts.
>
> I'm not sure how a low time pilot might feel, or be aware of what is
> happing in the landing roll out of their monowheel.
> I don't know if anyone has posted their thoughts on this
> subject.....but please DO NOT change out the outriggers on your
> plane on basis of my experience.
>
> Please understand I am not suggesting that anyone run out and change
> outriggers for longer ones.
>
> Jim Brown.
>
>
> ---- Fred Klein <fklein@orcasonline.com> wrote:
>> <fklein@orcasonline.com>
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>> On Sep 20, 2009, at 5:10 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
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>>> Over the past ten years I have extened the outriggers in length, to
>>> now when the plane is parked, both outriggers touch the ground. For
>>> me ground handling is much better, and in landing with the longer
>>> outriggers the "rocking from one outrigger to the other" is now
>>> gone.
>>
>> Jim,
>>
>> Have you made the outriggers longer incrementally over the years or
>> in
>> one fell swoop?
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>> Would you venture an opinion as to whether or not the shorter legs
>> were advantageous initially as you familiarized yourself w/ the mono?
>>
>> Sounds like you've had excellent results w/ the smaller tire at
>> higher
>> pressure on the hardsurface runways you use...thanks for putting your
>> oar in to this discussion.
>>
>> Fred
>> A194 XS mono
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