OK for all of you who dont know, this is what it looks like landing in a small plane at night. Taken 4/24/2012...Runway 1...Kanab, Utah. Wind 270 @ 5 Knots. Returning from Lake Havasu City, Az. The run way lights are pilot controlled with the transmit button on the radio. 7 clicks turns them on, then 5 for dim, and 3 for really dim. The steady white light off to my left is called a glide scope. You can see its white, this means I am to high, you can tell because I nosed it over pretty hard to get it down there, then when I get down low it goes red, some airports have 4 lights some have 2. This one is 2. You want 1 white 1 red and your right on glide and will hit the runway properly Or 2 white 2 red on a 4 light system. If you have all white you will fly all night and all red your dead. Thats the saying. The other two flashy lights are just to annoy you I think and then you have blue for taxi way and green for threshold. And if you notice the side lights go from white to orange to red to show you that you are nearing the end of the runway....pull up before you get to the red if you are taking off....LOL!!! The squeeky noise you hear right before I touch down is the stall warning horn, it is a reed valve located in the wing left wing, when the angle of attack of the wing gets to high and your airspeed gets to low you will hear this noise, its basically a reed valve like a saxaphone right up there by my left ear, and its very very loud. If you pay attention to the video you can see the plane touches down right when that stall warning is at its loudest. The reason the plane touched down is because it got to slow and stalled, this how you land a plane properly, you can see as I come in that i keep raising the nose a little bit and a little bit until the plane gets very slow and stops flying, at this point you want the wheels about 2 inches off the runway so when it stops flying its nice and smooth. FYI it took me 150 landings with an instructor before I figured it out...LOL!!! and one last thing the camera is steady it is sitting on the dash of the plane, all that movement is the plane not the camera. No puking!!! My touch down speed this evening was 62 MPH, that is power off stall speed with 30 degrees of flaps. Flaps just extend the wing chord line so the plane will fly at lower speeds. Or in other words they make your wing bigger.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 05:30:14 +0000
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