I am honestly mystified as to why you don't have both an ATP and a PhD.
One of the great injustices of our time, I suppose.
Beginner tailwheel pilots love to land in a crab (and then try to drive frantically
off the runway) because they have a lot of sudden pitch change before touchdown
in a hurried flare (because they're behind the airplane) with a metal blade prop that
has significant pitch-yaw coupling.
They bring the nose up, and the nose goes right. The weeds on the right side
of the runway fear them. While this seems somewhat obscure, I have had it
demonstrated to me thousands of times, so it kinda sticks in my brain.
Also, I remember the Senior Air Canada Captain demonstrated this technique
with a 220hp (Franklin) Maule. Destroyed it.
Notice that Spencer approached very flat, and did not have a large pitch change.
In addition, his 203cm MT prop has almost zero pitch-yaw coupling.
Again, this discussion of prop construction and the effect of gyroscopic precession
seems terribly obscure and irrelevant:
or is it?
