Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:25 pm
#775375
(There seems to be no way to log out to post anonymously, so this isn't very anonymous!)
Normal take-off run. Pull back slightly at an appropriate speed, as usual. Leave the ground. Slide sidesays out of the air, hit the ground on one wheel, then back on the ground on all wheels for a fraction of a second, heading towards the side of the runway. Bounce back up into the air. Stall warner starts screaming.
OK ... at a foot above the ground, just about to chop the power and land in the 2/3 of a mile of remaining runway when the thing starts flying and we climb away normally.
(This is tarmac - I'm used to bouncing airborne prematurely off grass and have always coped with it so far - usually some variation on "do nothing and it'll sort itself out".)
Diagnosis: I failed to take the crosswind seriously, didn't hold on the require into-wind aileron, and got caught by a gust under the upwind wing.
Next time: believe in crosswinds on take-off, even if the reported crosswind is such that I wouldn't worry about it on landing.
Normal take-off run. Pull back slightly at an appropriate speed, as usual. Leave the ground. Slide sidesays out of the air, hit the ground on one wheel, then back on the ground on all wheels for a fraction of a second, heading towards the side of the runway. Bounce back up into the air. Stall warner starts screaming.
OK ... at a foot above the ground, just about to chop the power and land in the 2/3 of a mile of remaining runway when the thing starts flying and we climb away normally.
(This is tarmac - I'm used to bouncing airborne prematurely off grass and have always coped with it so far - usually some variation on "do nothing and it'll sort itself out".)
Diagnosis: I failed to take the crosswind seriously, didn't hold on the require into-wind aileron, and got caught by a gust under the upwind wing.
Next time: believe in crosswinds on take-off, even if the reported crosswind is such that I wouldn't worry about it on landing.