Approach Crosswind Firewall 
Plane and Pilot
MAY 3, 2025
You can see other Weick influences, such as the oil-damped tricycle landing gearall produced Cherokees are trikeswith a wide track to make crosswind landings more manageable. I also like to look for what I call crummy weather thats just low enough that I can get an instrument approach in, but not so much that I don’t have any outs.
Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Sure, the economics put the airplane in the high-value category in the wild world of 2024 aviation, but this approach ignores what it’s like to fly the RV-12. The large canopy pivots at the firewall, so it’s up and out of the way as you settle in. Vso approach speed is 53 knots. But it’s not difficult to learn.
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AV Web
JULY 1, 2025
In reality, they’re far easier to prang and the right instruction teaches a very different approach to landing them compared to heavier birds. Busted landing gear, shattered props, bent firewalls—and many more that probably didn’t make the reports because owners quickly stuck them back in the hangar and turned off the lights.
Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 10, 2024
Sure, the economics put the airplane in the high-value category in the wild world of 2024 aviation, but this approach ignores what it’s like to fly the RV-12. The large canopy pivots at the firewall, so it’s up and out of the way as you settle in. Vso approach speed is 53 knots. But it’s not difficult to learn.
Plane and Pilot
DECEMBER 16, 2024
You might ask what happens with crosswind landings when you take away rudder authority. Flight Design rates the F2 with the same 16-knot demonstrated crosswind component as the previous CTs. Our flight was absent any crosswind, so its hard to know how the rudder/nosewheel gearing would work under those conditions.
Plane and Pilot
OCTOBER 3, 2024
But it was apparent the smallest Grumman flying boat was too small and full of quirks—the cabin door won’t open if the flaps are down, for example—to justify something approaching a direct copy. Pretty much the only metal parts are the landing gear legs, stainless firewalls, engine mounts, engines and hardware.
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