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Speculating: the nose is gonna come down anyway (as sokoloff said, CoG is ahead of the main landing gear), so it's safer for the front to impact from as little
by FeepingCreature 3y ago
Speculating: the nose is gonna come down anyway (as sokoloff said, CoG is ahead of the main landing gear), so it's safer for the front to impact from as little height as possible. If you hit tail-first and keep the nose up you're setting yourself up for a hefty impact when the front crashes down. Better to scrape from the start.
- pc86 3y agoOnce the mains touch down you keep the nose off as long as possible for minimal energy at impact. It will float down naturally and you don't really have any control over the manner in which it makes contact as long as you have full back pressure on the yoke. There's not really any way to affecting the height at which it starts coming down.