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raimo.toivio(at)rwm.fi
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 Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:25 am Post subject: (SPAM) RE: Falke compared with Europa Monowheel |
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Hans, Paul, David, Gilles, Robert
and all of you, who have compared Europa
with Falke: thank you for your kind advice
and sharing your flying memories!
I understand now Falke is only one step to
monowheel. Rather same but much different!
I also understand some people have difficulties
with monowheel and some people do not at all.
What younger is the pilot that easier is it to
learn new techniques and automatic & fast
physical reactions after signals coming from your
ass, eyes or ears. That is natural.
For me personally (46) it took one year to learn
to cycle by one wheeler (circus model) and I know
every healthy teenager can learn it in weeks if she/he
only really want to do it. They say it is as difficult as
learning to levitate helicopter. Learning to ride it was
my wife´s condition to do before monowheel flying...
I recommend it all of you - it is fun and keeps your
senses sensitive!
I have sat on the co-pilot side in the monowheel
when it was piloted by Roger Sheridan, Peter Kember,
Mark Waite, David Bosomworth and Dirk van Oyen.
They were speakable and relaxed when landing but
of course all of them are Miracle Men. Those flights
pushed me to build and go on building monowheel.
I am sorry about RF5 -accident and wish you all
safe flights.
Raimo
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OH-XRT Europa XS Mono #417
OH-CVK C172 Skyhawk
OH-BLL Beechcraft C45 w radial engines (grounded)
37500 Lempaala
Finland
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fax + 358 3 3753 100
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raimo.toivio(at)rwm.fi
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grahamsingleton(at)btinte
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| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:15 am Post subject: (SPAM) RE: Falke compared with Europa Monowheel |
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Raimo
If you can learn to ride a monocycle I am sure you will learn to land a
Monowheel Europa. The key to it is feet and eye co-ordination, keep
looking at the horizon. That's also the key to windsurfing and skiing !
I learnt to do it at age 60 or thereabouts. I did fly gliders and
Motorfalke a long time ago. The difference is the speed of response of
the Europa, it is much much faster than airplanes with decent long
wings. (As all glider pilots know, TINSFOS =-O ) *
The first thing you need to get fixed into the automatic part of your
brain is to get the tailwheel down first.
Next get the stick immediately all the way back ( I still haven't learnt
to do that, I find myself thinking of other things like yawing etc. must
be getting old)
If you practice visuallising this in your armchair you might find it
almost easy when you start flying.
The wheel should be pegged on the ground now, so all you have to do is
spot the yaw starting almost before it starts and correct with dancing
feet on the rudder.
Graham
* there is no substitute for span!!
Raimo Toivio wrote:
| Quote: | For me personally (46) it took one year to learn
to cycle by one wheeler (circus model) and I know
every healthy teenager can learn it in weeks if she/he
only really want to do it.
Raimo
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