Hey guys- Jon here from fly8ma.com and today I'm going to be talking to you
about high speed taxing, or basically practicing for landings without actually
leaving the ground. So how we're going to do this, our goal today, is to get the
nose wheel up off the ground, main gear on the ground, and maybe they
bobble around a little bit maybe they get airborne and set back down again
we're basically practicing for that moment when we come in and flare and put
the mains on the ground first and we're doing this without ever leaving the
ground we're going to get a lot more practice in this way using the whole
length of the runway to simulate a very long mushy landing compared to just
coming in and doing touch and go after touch and go after touch and go. So we're
gonna do this in the landing configuration, even though we're still on
the ground. So i'm going to go ahead and set twenty-five degrees of flaps.
Fuel pump is on. We're all configured and then go ahead and trim for landing
as if we were coming into land so everything feels the same here, and then
we're going to go ahead and take the runway and our radio call will be that
we're making a high-speed taxi down the runway then not that we're departing the
area or departing the runway the high-speed taxi.
That lets
everyone know that we're going to be taxing down the runway using the whole
runway, but not actually leaving the area anywhere. We're going to go ahead and get
lined up, just as we would for takeoff.
And now if you're doing this in a Piper Cherokee or in a piper product, more than
likely you're going to have to be very delicate with your runners if as the
nose comes up and down off the ground, because if you put rudder in and then
the nose comes back down remember you get that direct connection between the
nose wheel and your steering and your feet and you'll have pretty aggressive
left or right turning tendencies as that nose wheell comes down if it is cocked to
the side there. So right as the nose comes down be aware and ease up on both feet
and just let the nose straighten itself out and then put your rudder input back
in again. I'm gonna go ahead and ease and power here.
I'm just not using full power setting about fifteen to seventeen hundred rpm
pulling back a whole lot we really have no cross winds today. Winds coming just
about right down the runway. I'm working it to get that nose wheel up off the
ground there. I'm just trying to hold the airplane right here just as if I was
coming into land.
I'm using my rudder to control direction I'm looking down I can't actually see
anything in front of me. Okay I can't see over the nose this is a good
landing player this is a full stall landing as if we were coming into land.
So even though I can't see over the nose, my focal point is still right in front
of me, looking as far down the runway as I can even though I can't see it, and
I'm really using my peripherals to tell how high I am and if I'm left or right
off the ground.
We get picked up by a little gust of wind there no big deal, checking as we cross
the runways here. This is just what you would do in your landing. You're milking
the airplane for all the speed she's got. We can pull her up in the air here,
and as we get air born we have to use some crosswind correction here.
And when we want to settle down, we just pull that power out, hold the airplane
off the ground as we normally would, and the airplane settles down using
appropriate crosswind correction here. A little bit of crossing from the right
and just enough to keep the nose up in the air. Looking down the runway, also
being aware not to scrape the tail here. Using the controls as generously as I
need to to maintain small changes in pitch with the nose and if we get
airborne here, say I add a little too much power, no problem at all I can just
go ahead and reduce some of that power reduce a little pitch in the airplane
comes back down onto the ground.
And right as a nose is getting ready to come back to the ground we want to make
sure that we're light on our feet the rudder pedals so that we don't let the
nose sit down when the nose wheels crooked and that's going to take us
sharply left or right all of a sudden.
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