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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Eyeballing the Runway
Message-ID: <464@terak.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 12:38:18 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  1 12:38:18 1985
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> Look at the relationship
> of the engine cowling and the far end of the runway.
> If you could at that time some how "lift" the nose
> of the aircraft to align the cowling edge with the
> far end of the runway, you would be in a perfect
> landing attitude with the mains touching.  That is
> the (flare) attitude you should always try to be
> in at landing.

Gee, I'd have to lift the tail of my C-120 to get the top of the cowling
down below the horizon.  The nose on a PA-32 (Cherokee Six/Lance/
Saratoga) is so long that the top of the cowling is well above the
horizon in a flare.  And twins don't even have cowlings (well, except
for the C-336/337 :-)
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Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug