Now a high performance glider approach. As audio commentary points out, the
pilot is floating this one in and is paying for it with less than perfect
directional control authority. That said, this is a nice example of starting a
flare early, holding it in pause for a second than finishing it for nice
landing.
Body/hand position is marginal at points (common problem with comp harness',
although there are things folks have mentioned here that help in that regard),
but this Aeros responds well to a sharp flare finish and pitches up well.
There you have it! The ECC landing clinic was pretty gentlemanly way to practice
landings and universally thought to be extremely effective and worthwhile by all
who participated. Prefaced with thorough ground school (executed much like this
article actually), ten-ish ET tows off carts with golf cart retrieval (Thanks
Nate!) And HD frame-by-painful- frame video review that leaves all doubt and
opinion at the door. Pilots even get copies of the landings to review and
compare later. All for less than the price of one downtube. Hmm… why don't we do
more of this?
