🚀 go-pugleaf

How low do you fly?  As I gained more confidence in my flying abilities
(as soon as I quit screwing up..)  I quit flying "way up there" unless I'm
doing something really unusual like inverted spins.  My typical flying 
altitude is probably somewhere around 50-75 feet, while other people in 
my club seem to like to stay several hundred feet up.  

One of the things I've been doing lately is full throttle low passes.  Two
weekends ago I finally got up the nerve to do a full throttle touch and
go.  It went pretty smooth, and I was so engrossed in watching the plane
driving along the ground that I almost ran out of runway before I pulled 
off again!  On my 4th touch and go, I lost the tire off my front wheel!
I use the solid rubber Kraft wheels, so I was really suprised to see this
happen.  Fortunately, that Trainer 40 handles very well at low speeds, and
I was able to bring the plane in nose high, land on the main gear, and hold 
the nose off until the plane had almost rolled to a stop.  

Anyone else have this kind of thing happen to them?
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Scott Wiesner
{allegra, ucbvax, cornell}!nbires!scott