E-Flite Draco Tail First Landing

[@chikenfpv7798]

why

[@brianbrotherson5529]

Why what?

[@chikenfpv7798]

@@brianbrotherson5529 why tail first. it just makes the plane unstable

[@brianbrotherson5529]

@@chikenfpv7798 The point of Draco is for STOL, in order to land short, you have to land slow, when you get slow in any airplane you must increase the angle of attack, when you do that, the nose goes up, which means the tail is low. When you touch down in this attitude, in order to have a short ground roll, it generally will be tail first. Have you seen the real one fly? Or any STOL competitions?

[@chikenfpv7798]

@@brianbrotherson5529 or you could do a STABLE 3 point landing.

[@brianbrotherson5529]

@@chikenfpv7798 You're missing the point. To get the shortest possible ground roll, you must touch down at the slowest possible speed. STOL flying is not about stability, it's about extracting the maximum performance out of the airplane, flying on the backside of the power curve, and without much room for error. I'll ask again, have you watched the full scale pilots perform these landings? Would you tell any one of them to speed up so they could be in a more level attitude? They would laugh at you, they want to touch tail first and just plop the mains on with hardly any rollout.