I've seen this film before and I'm familiar with the pilot. He has a very nice well kept airplane. He flies well. He appears to me to be a VERY conservative pilot. My experience and I should say the general consensus in the Mustang community is that the 51 certainly isn't unnecessarily "tricky" on roll out, nor does it have any "unusual" traits in this area.Buzz313th wrote:Thanks for replying Dudley, it's great that A2A has you as an adviser.
I'm the one who mentioned the instability of the Mustangs Rollout. I have no time in a P51 (wish I did) so I can't comment from experience. I got my info from a video another user posted of a current owner of the P51 named "Lady Alice".
If you view the video starting at 17:21 he starts talking about the rollout stability of the P51 that he owns. Maybe it's just specific to his mustang, dunno.
Here's the kink to the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBIIhP_eOvE
Keeping one's feet in the game is definitely advisable when flying ANY airplane, especially a tail dragger, but I would respectfully disagree with this pilot that the Mustang needs "special attention" because it's a Mustang.
I'm sure the pilot's comments are well intentioned and I have no doubt whatsoever that he believes what he is saying. If believing this is what it takes for him to fly safely I'm the last person on the planet who would say he's wrong to believe it.
As we say in the business............"whatever works for you"......or....... "different strokes for different folks!"
DH