If "landing on the point" means that the main wheel is touching first on th
e runway, that is most of your problem.
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The monowheel tire is located ahead of the center of gravity and as soon as
the tire touches the runway the tail will go down until the tailwheel-re
aches the runway. This results in the plane being launched back into the ai
r. Depending on speed at touchdown this will result in small or high bounce
s.- "The monowheel can not be wheel landed" such as a regular tailgragger
.. The tail wheel must touch down just before, or as soon as the main wheel.
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To get the correct picture of the planes attitude at landing, When you taxi
out for takeoff, and when you get the plane lined up and ready to come up
on power, pause for a minute, look at the far end of the runway over the co
wl. this will be your sight picture for the landing touchdown..
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Jim Brown
Monowheel XS
--- On Wed, 1/28/09, Frank Kusserow <frank@kusserow-online.com> wrote:
From: Frank Kusserow <frank@kusserow-online.com>
Subject: Europa-List: Bouncing Mono Classic
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 9:04 PM
Dear all,
I am slowly gaining experience with my monowheel, but-today I-did-a f
ew patterns on a concrete runway (before I mainly used grass strips as a be
ginning) and experienced hefty "bouncings" on landing, causing me to go aro
und twice-although touchdown was quite smooth it threw me back up in the ai
r like a rubber ball-(I tried-touchdown speeds-between 45 and 60 kts
with steep and shallow approaches, with and without flaring). The mono is o
ne of the first from 1996-1998 with the red rubberblock as a shock absorber
- since the a/c has now around 600 hrs/700 landings, could it be the case t
hat it needs to be replaced? Or could it be something else? I know that the
mono tends to bounce if not landed "on the point", but I never experienced
it in my past-25 landings so badly. Did anyone have a similar experience
? I use the large 8.00 tire on it.
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Thank you for your help
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Frank Kusserow
Germany
D-EJWD/ Europa Mono Classic/912UL/Warp Drive
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