I managed to stall on "base" a while back. A quick nose down and some throttle fixed that. Now I'm willing to fly a little faster while turning base and final - and come in higher. A person has to remember that airplanes are built with lots of "go a rounds" in them. Some of them can't handle even one very hard landing. Then there is sudden "wind shear" - a year around hazard. Mike @ KDLL
--- In [email protected], "Ed Burkhead" <edburkh...@...> wrote: > > > > Mike Willis wrote: > > * . . . the high rate of sink when you get slow, > > * inability to get the speed up at all by lowering the > > * nose on short finals > > > > > > Ah, Mike, you can get lots of speed back by lowering the nose on short > final. But, you must lower the nose a lot! > > > > Admittedly, this is hard to do when you are approaching the ground. And, it > would be disastrous to do if you were too low when you realized you were too > slow. > > > > In my humble opinion, Coupes take a higher skill level to fly the approach > well but a lower-than-tail-dragger skill level to land well. > > > > The Coupes will tolerate excess speed on final pretty well (very short > fields excepted). But they don't tolerate low speeds on final as they, like > other thick, short wing aircraft (Piper short-wings, in example) have very > deep sink rates at low speeds. > > > > Ed >
