Having also lived at and flown from airports in Colorado usually at 7000 ft, I wish to point out that the rules of true airspeed apply equally to an airplane rolling out on the ground as to one in the air. While a tricycle is less affected by this problem than is a taildragger, one should exercise great caution in making the turn off the runway. You could be going up to 20% faster ground speed (true air speed) than you think. The air speed indicator may have just hit the peg below 40 mph and you could be doing close to 50. This also means that if you "stall" and touch down at 60 mph you are actually doing 72. Now that's whipping right along for a three wheeler! Dick in NM -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, October 18, 1999 4:01 PM Subject: Re: Cross wind and slippery stuff
>I don't know the answer to Nathan's question (cross wind handling on a not >dry runway), but when he said he flies from an airport at 6800 feet, I >immediately wonder what is his ground speed at touch down on a calm day. >Must be pretty high
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