Good job Jordon, I have a lot of practice idle and dead stick landings with my MX over the last 17 years. Six off field forced landings with no bent parts on plane or pilot. True dead stick (wooden propeller not turning) are close to the glide slope at idle. You can stretch the glide a bit more at low speed with idle. You should also practice burning some altitude to make an off field landing. Using S turns and spoilers to make a target spot. Try powered approaches with BOTH spoilers up! REALLY steep slope!. Cross coordinated spoiler and rudder is also draggy. Play with using spoilers in a jammed rudder emergency. And when you get really good, using throttle for pitch control.
Good training. Thanks for taking us along. Judging glide can be hard. Take it up to altitude and burn off the altitude to land on the runway. Don't just cut power when you know you can make it. Thanks again. Great videos.
Dude! Been watching & listening because I want to do this as well. Enjoyed pretending I was in the seat watching ur videos. BTW Thx and well done. Any advice to a beginner?
@@richardmestas7690 I kinda was too. It helped to drive it back and forth till I was confident enuf to do short hops then just went for longer hops then started flying it side to side and then land. After I was able to do that I knew I could fly it. I feel like that was the golden ticket for me just progressing a little each time. I had 16 hours on my 0 hour motor when I finally made my first flight around the airport so ya it took me awhile lol but it's not worth rushing.
I have heard these ultralights with the pusher engines do not glide that well. Would be interesting to actually test it with GPS mark a spot kill the engine and glide for 1000 feet see how far your able to actually glide it. Good thing is with such a low stall speed almost land them anywhere that is flat enough has some room around it.
I had a few deadstick practice landings on my last video as well. Mine have a lot less room for error. LoL I also got 360 footage which is pretty cool.
Good job Jordon, I have a lot of practice idle and dead stick landings with my MX over the last 17 years. Six off field forced landings with no bent parts on plane or pilot. True dead stick (wooden propeller not turning) are close to the glide slope at idle. You can stretch the glide a bit more at low speed with idle. You should also practice burning some altitude to make an off field landing. Using S turns and spoilers to make a target spot. Try powered approaches with BOTH spoilers up! REALLY steep slope!. Cross coordinated spoiler and rudder is also draggy. Play with using spoilers in a jammed rudder emergency. And when you get really good, using throttle for pitch control.
Good training. Thanks for taking us along. Judging glide can be hard. Take it up to altitude and burn off the altitude to land on the runway. Don't just cut power when you know you can make it. Thanks again. Great videos.
Thanks and ya thats my plan as I get more comfortable with it.
Excellent practice for not if engine out happens but more like when engine out happens. Nice video
Great practice. Keep it up. Don't hear any droning noise like in mine. Wonder if it's my prop little out of balance.
Awesome.
Dude! Been watching & listening because I want to do this as well. Enjoyed pretending I was in the seat watching ur videos. BTW Thx and well done.
Any advice to a beginner?
Thanks that's awesome. I would just say go slow and take your time.
@@jordonweets I’m afraid to wad-up .
@@richardmestas7690 I kinda was too. It helped to drive it back and forth till I was confident enuf to do short hops then just went for longer hops then started flying it side to side and then land. After I was able to do that I knew I could fly it. I feel like that was the golden ticket for me just progressing a little each time. I had 16 hours on my 0 hour motor when I finally made my first flight around the airport so ya it took me awhile lol but it's not worth rushing.
I have heard these ultralights with the pusher engines do not glide that well. Would be interesting to actually test it with GPS mark a spot kill the engine and glide for 1000 feet see how far your able to actually glide it. Good thing is with such a low stall speed almost land them anywhere that is flat enough has some room around it.
I had a few deadstick practice landings on my last video as well. Mine have a lot less room for error. LoL I also got 360 footage which is pretty cool.