Globe Swift
Target for the Globe Swift
Up to 50fpm
Full marks for descent rate up to 50 fpm, and no note for a soft touchdown: a feather-light arrival is the right technique here.
- Vref reference
- 52ktat 712 kg
- Tail-strike limit
- 12°the category's
- Ideal touchdown zone
- 30 to 150mpast the threshold
- G-force
- 1.10Gfull marks, the category's curve
Two-seat low-wing sport monoplane with retractable tailwheel gear, built by Globe and TEMCO after World War II, the GC-1B version having a 125 hp Continental.
Roundout scores this aircraft with the Tailwheel / Aerobatic category's curves and touchdown-zone window. The figures it uses are below.
How its touchdown is scored.
The score at each point of its curves. Between the points, scores fall in a straight line; the full method is in the scoring methodology.
No shared landings or board for this aircraft yet. Its figures appear once pilots with a public profile have shared 5 graded landings in it, and a board once at least 5 opted-in pilots have flown it 10 or more times each. See the boards there are.
For reference.
Aircraft data
- Manufacturer
- Globe
- Model
- Swift
- Variant
- GC-1A (85 hp Continental C-85)
- FAA approach category
- A
- MTOW
- 712 kg (1,570 lbs)
- Vref in flight
- Adjusted to the weight you land at
- MSFS source
- Payware (Aeroplane Heaven)
- Category
- Tailwheel / Aerobatic
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