"Stefan" wrote in message
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Milen Lazarov wrote:

Jay Honeck wrote:

As I turned from base to final, the unexpectedly strong wind had me bent
out of shape pretty good, but I managed to wrestle the runway back into
alignment without entering the coffin-corner of cross controlling.

What is a coffin-corner and how does one get into it in the pattern?

Jay frivolously used that well defined term completely wrong, presumably
just because it sounds good. (A tactic which some journalists use, too,
especially when they write about aviation...) You never get into the
coffin corner at pattern altitude.

The stall speed is constant with indicated airspeed, while Vne is constant
with true airspeed (acually, it decreases somewhat at high altitudes). So
there is a point, at very high altitudes, where Vs meets Vne. This point
is called the coffin corner, because you can't escape from it (except by
descending): You can't slow down (stall) nor accelerate (Vne).

Stefan

I always thought that the "coffin corner" was where stall speed met the Mach
limit. I didn't think that it even applied to non-jet aircraft.

Mike
MU-2