I just retested at Dawson and it’s totally doable, just takes practice.
Full flaps, float in ~95 kts, stick back when you’re on the ground, short taps of the brakes to slow down.
It’s like that old joke, how do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice.
It’ll click eventually. Don’t worry about crashing or ground looping, you can’t die (like a lot of those poor buggers did) and it’s actually great practice for understanding the limits of the plane. Get comfortable with it going crazy, then dial it back. Try different things, but best to just change one thing at a time so easy to see the difference.
Are your trims configured?
| ○ 6 degrees right rudder trim ww2 F4U training film | ||
|---|---|---|
| ○ 6 degrees right aileron trim - right wing down ww2 F4U training film | ||
| ○ Elevator tab 1 degree nose up ww2 F4U training film |
If you hot start on the runway your aileron and rudder trims will already be set to this, you can try adding 5 on the nose up trim display in external view. (= 1 degree as above)
You can leave them like this to do TO/Landing circuits, just put the gear/flaps up when you TO and do a pattern to land again, drop them out on the downwind leg.
Stick with it, you’ll get it.