Avoiding Tailskid
Avoiding Tailskid
Avoiding Tailskid
Strike
Objective
To understand aircraft characteristics and
to avoid tail strikes
Contents
Takeoff risk factors
Landing risk factors
Center of gravity
HGS
Landing flaps
Max x-wind landing
Recovery from a bounced
landing
Takeoff Risk Factors-1
Miss-trimmed stabilizer
~using erroneous takeoff data
Rotation at improper speed
~is usually caused by early rotation due to
some unusual situation, or rotation at too low an
airspeed for the weight and/or flap setting.
Excessive rotation rate
Takeoff Risk Factors-2
Trimming during rotation
Unstabilized approach
Holding off in the flare
Trimming in the flare
Mishandling of crosswinds
Over-rotation during go-around
Center of Gravity (CG)