john smith wrote:

In article ,
Cary Mariash wrote:


I found that landing this plane was very tricky, control of
airspeed is critical.


I have been saying this all along. I believe the airfoil is optimized
for high speed cruise. Does anyone know of a published independent study
about the wing and airfoil Cirrus uses?

No, but the stall speed is quite high, which suggests that the airfoil
isn't optimized for slow speed flight. At least I consider 59K with
flaps to be reasonably high having flown mostly Cessna singles. If you
are a Mooney pilot, then this wouldn't be considered high.

What I don't know is what the stall characeristics are. Given the cuffs
and such on the wings, I suspect the airfoil isn't as docile as a 182 or
a Bonanza.

Matt