Doug,

Maybe you need the seven pack. Juuussst kidding! Take a breath and
relax. Its gonna be summer real soon.

Thanks for the call to Bob to offer assistance at our West Coast
Tandem Wing FlyIn this August. You really are a champion for Quickie
Airplanes and are doing a fantastic job in your new position. It
will be fun to get you out here and chat it up. Looks like we gonna
have another fun Cailfornia weekend.

BTW, just cause your rudders bigger n' mine doesn't mean you know
how to hold your mouth just right for landing in a nasty crosswind.
I bet you didn't have your crosswind boots on either, did you?

Best regards,

Jim Patillo N46JP Q200




--- In Q-LIST@yahoogroups.com, "HawkiDoug" <hawkidoug@c...> wrote:

Like I said. I don't want to start with the rudder thing because

mine came

this way and my point is I'm glad I had differential brakes which

I believe

is part of "setting them up properly". I don't consider my bird

squirrelly

either and it doesn't have some of the six pack mods which I do

advocate. My

experience level has a lot to do with the situation also, as I

have never

been involved in crosswinds of this nature in any airplane. My

runway

options yesterday were limited because the more favorable runway

was down

for maintenance. It would have cut an 80 degree crosswind to a 40

degree

cross wind similar to the situation you described Jim, and I

might not have

written my 1st email in the first place. I only wrote it because

the point

is the airplane & I made a successful landing and it DID handle

the

crosswind.

Do we need to make the 6 pack a 7 pack? Because I haven't read

which is the

best way to hold my mouth to help my landings. :) Maybe when I

come to

Livermore in August I can get a photo of you and I with the proper

mouth

alignment to put in the newsletter.

Doug "Hawkeye" Humble
www.asignabove.net
Omaha NE
N25974
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Patillo" <logistics_engineering@m...>
To: <Q-LIST@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 10:21 AM
Subject: [Q-LIST] Re: X wind landings in a Q

Doug,

When Brad and I returned from Oshkosh last year we landed at
Wendover, UT. The runway was 120 degrees and the wind was

blowing 170-

180 degrees at 38 gusting to 42. No problems (standard rudder).

You

must have been holding your mouth the wrong way. These planes

land

fine in a cross wind so long as they are set up properly and

weren't

already squirly.

It was a bealtiful day over the Sierra's yesterday. Lots of snow!

Regards,

Jim Patillo N46JP Q200 565 hrs.

--- In Q-LIST@yahoogroups.com, "HawkiDoug" <hawkidoug@c...>

wrote:

Thankfully I had 150' wide by 7000' long runway. I used it all.

The female

controller came on after I was down and said "That wasn't fun

was

it? Now I

remember why I don't fly."

I'm impressed with how tough this little bird is. I attempted 3

landings and

all were very hard. I increased throttle with each bounce to

stabilize

things for the next attempt. The 3rd "hit" I just stayed with

her

and it all

came out ok. I have tried to go over everything in my mind to

see

what I

would do differently, but I can't clarify anything, so I either

did

everything possible to begin with or was just lucky, or both.

While the crosswind was a b*%ch, the gusting was the big issue.

I

kept power

in to the last moment and when I cut the throttle the gusts

would

get me. Oh

yeah, I'm glad I had differential brakes! I don't want to start

the

whole

"bigger rudder" issue again, but My big rudder wasn't enough

yesterday (yes

I have a non standard rudder). Differential brakes saved my

bacon.

I did

inspect the aircraft when I got back to the hanger and saw no

damage. I did

see paint from my tail wheel bracket on the tail wheel on the

side

where you

would expect it. You can imagine the forces involved.


Doug "Hawkeye" Humble
www.asignabove.net
Omaha NE
N25974

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