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LILO-LOWI-Adrenaline
Climb from "Corna" to "Liscidini"
3/4 Clock Around "Santa Giustina Lake"
INTRO - Where it all have STARTED
The beginning is always a delicate matter. It often does take several restarts and new approaches. This has been true for this writing... It has been true for the creation of the LILO-LOWI-Adrenaline "parcours" ... and it is a painful truth for all the pilots debuting and struggling with their plane. We all have been at that very start point, many times, all of us, trying to land back in a manner that leave us satisfied, failing, and trying again, repeatedly. CFIT(1) on final approach, bumpy landings, complicating with Tortoise oscillations(2) , Excursions(3), seem to be the constant.
Wrong Mind - Wrong Landing
My first thoughts was : - "...oh, it is just a simulator... with a bit of training we get there..." But, despite my best patience and will, it was not "getting there". I turned my sleuth for help to the more advanced users and several users come to my rescue with a lot of advice, suggestion and even own demonstrations. I still am grateful for the time and care shown to help me. Thank you. Despite their good and best advice, of course, surely because of me, my approach and landing skills was not enhancing as I was expecting. Other users suggested me to use the instrument assisted approach. Use the ILS ... I recognize how helpful it is for line up the approach with the runway, especially in very marginal visual flying conditions ! But it does not solve the problem. Becoming depending of a few buttons in order to land properly a plane is --not-- the solution. For a start, the LOC/ILS tools do not land the plane for you but are an help one to go close to runway and then it is still up to the pilots to disengage the autopilot and operate the landing in manual control. ...yeah but there is some planes that have a real auto landing facility like the... I do not care ! I want to dom the whole operation and for this I need to understand how it does really and exactly work !
Never give up!
I did not give up. I have continued to try to experiment different flying configuration and decisions. Each time I was modifying a bit of this and less of that. The results was staying well below the good. It was like fighting something invisible and apparently invincible. But, not giving up and, at each time, modifying a bit more questions and tries led to evolve to new point of view, to new way to look at the same problem. You know, sometime, some explanation but different words ... And there of searches brought an unexpected explanation and solution putting everything in a brand new light ! The explanation comes out from comments and sketches done by a, now, retired flight instructor. I do not think it is a "new knowledge" and I am confident that any airspace student will learn it in a, let's say more numerical way. But i have been delighted by the simplicity and the clarity of this explanation and I am going to share it with you. For copyright reasons i can not past it here as is, but... I can do a sketch of my own and add the explanation with my own words.
1. little motorboat - no steering => wished track and obtained track are the same. 2. little motorboat - steering to babord - blue : wished track red : obtained track Due the elasticity of the medium "water" you are a bit drifted away from wished track. Just as long as drifting energy generated by the steering do not become greater then the toward energy. 3. Plane - steering to babord - blue : wished track red : obtained track Like for (2.) you are drifted away, but since the medium Air have another elasticity, the drift is different.
Same Logic in the side view for the plane... The accumulated energy of the plane in the direction of the descent is not going to stop when meeting with the ground ! This energy need to be used/transformed and is going to generate all the bad effects we struggle to dom as debutante. About this, Rob wrote : This energy that in the air is your friend and keep you alive, on the ground become you enemy. You can not just leave it there. You have accumulated it - you have to exhaust it ! Only then you become able to land ...and by landing i do mean, able to brake, steer and control your plane on land !
A new approach
This was totally addressing the questions i had ! Plus, it was clearly explaining the why of my landing failures, and even bringing answers to new coming questions. Just one question was not addressed : - ok, I exhaust the "flying energy". So i am going to stall ...from which height ? With the same clarity, the Rob explanation say this : - ideally from ZERO feet over the RWY.
- but, maximum from as height as what shock absorber can absorb.
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...My very first Title idea was "DISENGAGE AUTO-PILOT". For copyright reasons i can not past it here as is, but... I can do a sketch of my
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