Dam fine camera work. This pilot is very good indeed and you can tell he's having fun in a comparatively dangerous occupation.. I know I was a loader driver once myself. 👍 Thanks great to see this !!
tim smith Yeah it's amazing how many people don't know why the wingtip are swept up like that. It gets very annoying telling the same thing over and over after a while.
I did know about the shimmying but I was more looking at the angle at which he was keeping the aircraft at before nose gear touchdown.. Was higher than I would have been comfortable with if I was flying it and was kinda close to tail strike from what I saw in the footage. Not judging just observing and pointing it out. I also thought that pole forward on nose gear touchdown was standard practice.
@@Cailean750 Its called the flare. its held until aircraft has settled on rear wheels then put nose down. all aircraft should do this on landing its a fine balance between tail strike and pulvering the nose wheel the rear main undercarriage gear is much stronger for this reason watch large jets they do this.
@@sth50100 Cheers mate, Aware of this just seemed to keep the tail low and nose a lot higher than usual for a flare on a strip like that. Keep it too high on touchdown with steep strip and you’ll have trouble getting the nose down once you’ve bled some speed. Front Oleo’s on these have a shimmy damper to try and limit the shimmy however on a rough strip not all that helpful.
Your wrong it is a flecther. It was repowered with a walter M601. No dorsal fin , full flying tailplane , no 18 inch stretch in the fuselage . I worked for superair who did the conversion on this and many others. This was the fletcher that crashed sadly killing the pilot and skydivers onboard.
Dam fine camera work.
This pilot is very good indeed and you can tell he's having fun in a comparatively dangerous occupation..
I know I was a loader driver once myself. 👍
Thanks great to see this !!
Nice landings.
Pretty damn cool!
Great video, 1:17 I must show that to everyone who asks why the wing sweeps up towards the tips.
tim smith Yeah it's amazing how many people don't know why the wingtip are swept up like that. It gets very annoying telling the same thing over and over after a while.
now you know why the wing tips are tilted up a bit...
What's with the landing at 1:53 where he keeps the nose high for so long?
They tend to get a bit of nose wheel shimmy, I think when he puts nose wheel down he poles forward to put weight on it and dampen out shimmy.
I did know about the shimmying but I was more looking at the angle at which he was keeping the aircraft at before nose gear touchdown.. Was higher than I would have been comfortable with if I was flying it and was kinda close to tail strike from what I saw in the footage. Not judging just observing and pointing it out. I also thought that pole forward on nose gear touchdown was standard practice.
@@Cailean750 Its called the flare. its held until aircraft has settled on rear wheels then put
nose down.
all aircraft should do this on landing
its a fine balance between tail strike and pulvering the nose wheel
the rear main undercarriage gear is much stronger for this reason
watch large jets they do this.
@@sth50100 Cheers mate, Aware of this just seemed to keep the tail low and nose a lot higher than usual for a flare on a strip like that. Keep it too high on touchdown with steep strip and you’ll have trouble getting the nose down once you’ve bled some speed. Front Oleo’s on these have a shimmy damper to try and limit the shimmy however on a rough strip not all that helpful.
Is that Andrew Hogarth driving the loader??.
No Denis, that is the late Bruce Evans driving the loader, himself a very experienced ag pilot and his son David flying, a very professional crew.
Short short final :-) more like abbreviated carrier landings ...
That's a Cresco not a fletcher.
Your wrong it is a flecther. It was repowered with a walter M601. No dorsal fin , full flying tailplane , no 18 inch stretch in the fuselage . I worked for superair who did the conversion on this and many others. This was the fletcher that crashed sadly killing the pilot and skydivers onboard.