Utah-Jay
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Heber City, UT
I am sure this will illicit a bunch of responses... but I am looking for some help here. I have read various posts over time about setting trim for landing and some planes like aft CG.
Here is my struggle, I am about 10 hours into transitioning from the Rans S-20 to the S-21 and although I made a ton of progress yesterday (two flights all pattern work) I still have a long way to go. The S-21 has been wanting to float on me. I will admit that because I could spot land ( I was hitting the zebra strips before the numbers every time) in the S-20, I was trying to make the S-21 touchdown where I wanted, not when it was ready. With the much larger tail surfaces and a more efficient wing my old stick movements are/were way too aggressive and I was getting ballooning. But this wing is just a lot more efficient and really wants to fly were as the S-20 when I got it low and slow with a bit of flare it planted itself on the ground. The 21 just wants to go back up and fly and then it balloons up and plops down. So yesterday I went back to early flight training and just tried to hold it off and was getting nice touchdowns. But.... I was wasting 600-800’ of perfectly good runway when I need to be able to hit my spot.
So after all that bloviating, would adjusting trim or adding some aft CG help? Or am I just not doing it right? Currently I rarely touch the trim.
Crappy weather here today, so no flying and I am bugging you guys.
Here is my struggle, I am about 10 hours into transitioning from the Rans S-20 to the S-21 and although I made a ton of progress yesterday (two flights all pattern work) I still have a long way to go. The S-21 has been wanting to float on me. I will admit that because I could spot land ( I was hitting the zebra strips before the numbers every time) in the S-20, I was trying to make the S-21 touchdown where I wanted, not when it was ready. With the much larger tail surfaces and a more efficient wing my old stick movements are/were way too aggressive and I was getting ballooning. But this wing is just a lot more efficient and really wants to fly were as the S-20 when I got it low and slow with a bit of flare it planted itself on the ground. The 21 just wants to go back up and fly and then it balloons up and plops down. So yesterday I went back to early flight training and just tried to hold it off and was getting nice touchdowns. But.... I was wasting 600-800’ of perfectly good runway when I need to be able to hit my spot.
So after all that bloviating, would adjusting trim or adding some aft CG help? Or am I just not doing it right? Currently I rarely touch the trim.
Crappy weather here today, so no flying and I am bugging you guys.