Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By: Isablcorky(at)aol.com
I only got my Piet just off the ground last week, and the weather closed in. wanted to ask what the landing of choice is.wheel or full stall. ( Mike Cuy , I've watched that video of yours many timeslike I was taking the video, and tried to figure out how you land) anyone, fill me in. please.waltNX140DL(north N.J.)________________________________________________________________________________

Original Posted By: "Jack Phillips"
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: three point or wheel landingWalt,Congrats on getting it off the ground. Hope you can continue to get it back down. My test pilot, Mr. Edwin Johnson, has about 10 hrs on 41CC and seems to be having a ball. He laid out a testing program and is following it accurately. I might suggest you contact him for your questions on various landing techniques. Without his permission, I'm giving you his e mail address. elj(at)shreve.net. He's a great guy and a damn good pilot. Good flyingCorky, still in La________________________________________________________________________________

Original Posted By: owner-pietenpol-list-server(at)matronics.com
Hi Walt,For what it's worth, I've flown two Air Campers, a Pietenpol and a GN-1. Idid full stall landings in both, with no difficulty (other than trying toland the Pietenpol about 3' off the ground). Rick Durden has a good articleon this very subject in this past Monday's AvWeb. It is at:http://www.avweb.com/articles/lounge/tpl0054.html. If you don't subscribeto AvWeb, you should. It's free, and has good coverage of general aviationissues. It also occasionally has articles about building a Pietenpol byMatt Paxton. These can be found at: http://www.avweb.com/articles/piet1/,ht ... les/piet2/, http://www.avweb.com/articles/piet3/,and http://www.avweb.com/articles/piet4/.Good luck,Jack -----Original Message-----

Original Posted By: Rcaprd(at)aol.com
Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: three point or wheel landingWalt,I am not much of an expert, but I always preferred full stall three point landings in a tail wheel bird. #1 your going as slow as possible, #2 it has quit flying, this helps just in case you let it get ahead of you. Ground loops are always best at slow speed.Just remember it starts to porpoise freeze the stick al the way back.Have fun and be safe. Most of all just fly the bird naturally try not to think to much about it.Dan________________________________________________________________________________

Original Posted By: Matt Dralle

Original Posted By: "Edwin Johnson"
Thanks Edwin,That was very informative.walt----- Original Message -----

Original Posted By: owner-pietenpol-list-server(at)matronics.com
Edwin Thank you for your input to the list. Corky, thanks for introducing Edwinto us. You have a good test pilot. I recently moderated a discussion at theCAPA conference on the pros and cons of flying museum aircraft. CAPA(Canadian Aeronautical Preservation Association) an organization of AircraftMuseums from coast to coast in Canada. We are doing a pretty good job itseems of preserving aircraft but not as good a job of preserving the skillsrequired to fly them. Edwin your thoughts on the matter line up fairlyclosely with those expressed at the conference.We need more competent tail dragger pilots, so Keep Building Piets guys!John-----Original Message-----

Original Posted By: "Oscar Zuniga"
Walt,If you are socked in for the winter, I would be more than happy to keep your Pietin sunny Fla. (No charge of course). Larry Ragan Jacksonville, Fl. lragan(at)hotmail.com STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE*________________________________________________________________________________