How Do You Make A 3 Point Landing In A Tailwheel Airplane?
• Make your approach to land as you would in any airplane using the correct procedure for your particular make and model. • As you cross the runway threshold reduce the power to idle and slow your decent rate by raising the nose and flaring. • As the airplane slows, continue to raise the nose and hold the airplane off the runway. Optimally you are holding the airplane just an inch or so off the runway. • Continue to raise the nose to the point where the airplane’s pitch attitude matches the pitch attitude when its sitting on all three wheels. At this point stop raising the nose. • The airplane should settle to the runway and touch on all three wheels simultaneously. • Quickly and firmly pull the yoke all the way back to hold the tailwheel down and do not let up until the airplane has completely stopped. • Look far down the runway and line your nose up with an object on the horizon. Use the rudder pedals to keep the nose exactly on that object. This prevents the airplane from swerving o
