"Jeff" wrote in message ...
See, thats not an acceptable answer.
Power management is part of flying any airplane, VMC or IMC. Its part of
your
scan. Personally, in smooth air, I will take my plane up to the yellow
line and
have no concerns about losing control. But once established on the
approach
course, you get it in landing configuration.
If you fly your airplane more then a few times, your used to the speed and
know
when to slow down.
It has to be a different reason or the people that were in what ever study
that
said this was not experienced in the aircraft they were flying or were
yahoo's
and didnt care. I dont believe its the plane (complex/fixed gear), I think
its
pilot error.

Quite so. I wonder what the record would be if they included twins and
turboprops (also "retractables" in the equasion? The "equal time pilots" in
that later category are different than the ones in the former.



markjen wrote:

what makes people lose control in complex plane and not fixed gear?
I dont understand the big difference.

As has been discussed at least twice in this thread, it is not that much
that retracts lose contol more often, it is that they're less forgiving
when
they do. The fixed-gear pilot has longer to figure out what to do and
speeds stay under control enough that they have a good chance of
emerging
from the bottom of the cloud and getting it upright. The retract has
either
broken up already, or emerges from the cloud 40K over redline and the
pilot
pulls the wings off attempting to recover before hitting the ground.

I'll also note that my Bonanza is much more laterally stable with the
gear
down, but I don't really know if fixed-gears tend to be more laterally
stable as a rule.

- Mark