Larry Mednick
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Hi Ron, I suspect this will be an amazing thread with valuable information as already stated above. First thing to remember is landing a trike, even though some will say otherwise, is NOT easy to learn. It’s a bit difficult right up until it becomes effortless. In the mean while I have had to put my therapist hat on and calm down my distraught students that are ready to throw in the towel many many times. Above all there are a few things that can make landing with whatever technique you are using much more difficult or impossible.
First is where you are looking. If you are looking down or too close in front of you it will be near impossible to be aware of your descent rate, your altitude and possibly your attitude (which controls direction of flight)
Second is stay relaxed. Stiffening up and or holding your breath will surely not allow you to fluidly control the trike. Like riding a horse you MUST be relaxed with your elbows preferably down allowing the trike to “fly” while the control bar moves freely.
Third keep your head centered. Shifting your head to the right is typical as the trike drifts to the left. Not only does moving your head to the right not do anything useful, but the mind tends to stop doing other things like work the control bar as the pilot contorts their body in an effort to will the trike in the direction of their head. Also as you move towards your right hand on the bar , you lose the ability to pull your right hand towards yourself to lower that wing. So stay centered and if the trike is banked left “fix” the trike and not your body.
If you can do these 3 things then it might take 100+ landings to get consistent . Beyond that, technique is very useful and there are multiple techniques that will work, but without lots of patience an perseverance the finish line may seem unobtainable. So remember when you see all of these solo videos, these guys are warrior’s that trained for many hours and overcame bad habits (listed above) to achieve their dream.
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Hi Brad thanks for joining! That’s a great idea for a next upgrade to the site! However in the meanwhile a discussion topic of the even t with the date could also work. I see Dave Schultz just did one for Oshkosh. Also Mike Hudetz has always used a classified ad to promote his “Wingfest” trike gathering every year. The good thing is however you post about an event it will probably be seen on this site and It will pop back up into the homepage feed anytime someone comments on it or has a question.
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Thanks Ernie, And big congratulations on getting your sport pilot ticket at age 73. Quite the accomplishment!
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Thank you. Yeah, I almost cried the day Trikepilot.com went down. It was a sad day for the trike community. This site had to be mostly custom built even though it appears simple I wanted it to work like the old forum because “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” now I realize why Spencer could not get the new WordPress based site to duplicate the original platform. Lots of custom coding and trouble shooting. I had hoped to had This site launched 2 months ago if that gives any idea of the road blocks we encountered. But all is well that ends well except Barnstormers.com permanently deleted my account and said I am their competition now. Very sad and petty if you ask me…
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Welcome! And I’d like to say thank you to all the new members for being here.
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Tonight at 12:00 AM Eastern time we may have disruption as we transfer from just one server in New York to several servers around the world for faster response on the site.
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Great news! Photo uploads now up to 8.0. So should not have any more problems. We also see that Facebook video shares are not showing the icon on the homepage. We are working on that and this site should be running 2 to 3 times faster in the next 48 hours or so.
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I ran into the same problem. Seems 6.5 would cover most of my photos. I wound up resizing the few photos I uploaded as well. Would that be enough for all of your photos that you have? The larger we allow, the slower the site functions. BUT ,We are supercharging the site anyway with multiple servers world wide. I don’t know why I ever went for “this should be fine and we can upgrade later” that’s not how I do much of anything. 🙂 but now it’s getting done. I had no base line to know what would be enough… but as usual I NEED MORE SPEED!
So will 6.5 be large enough for everyone’s photos?
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Thanks everyone for being here. I apologize about how slow this site is running at the moment. We are working quickly to get this forum lightening fast as it should be. I appreciate your patience and look forward to seeing more content.
Please do not forget we have a FREE classifieds section. If you have even trike parts or gear for sale, please use this section to list your ad. Looking forward to getting a nice inventory of used aircraft for future trike pilots that may get their start right here on Trike Action
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My pleasure!
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Thats a great idea! I assume you are thinking of starting in Arizona?
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Ok perfect that’s an easy fix. Stand by and I’ll let you know when it’s changed. Thanks
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It is AMAZING to see so many here on this site. In fact you guys crashed the site for about an hour today… No worries we are getting a huge influx of members and awesome content and we are upgrading servers to handle the larger than expected turn out and speed up the site. NICE JOB GUYS! I feel very blessed to have everyone joining this group and I look forward to many discussions and sharing from around the world. Thank you all for being here!
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Thanks Bill, it’s good to hear from you! Nice to see old friends here reuniting.