On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:45:00 +0200, Stefan
wrote:

Maule Driver schrieb:

Flying an approach within a knot requires concentration and more than 3
TO/Landings in 90.

You mean, flying unconcentrated is SOP? :-/

Should be. Concerned yes, but by the time someone qualifies to fly one
of these hot rods they should not have to spend time concentrating on
getting things right when landing. It should be second nature.


The instructors in my club don't solo students who can't nail the
approach speed to -0/+2 knots and touch down within 150 feet of the
designed point (weather permitting, of course).

Lordy, I'm happy to hit the right runway at the right airport let
alone the speed.

My motto is: Don't land long on short runways and don't land short on
long runways.

OTOH I rarely fly a stabilized pattern. I do on occasion, but normally
I vary the pattern from a close in slipping U-turn outbound from the
end of the runway to the runway to a normal stabilized rectangular
pattern. Landings from all of these patterns will be soft field, short
field, and no flap. Most landings take power as power off landings
take too much runway as final is noticeably faster without power and
can be as much as 15 MPH faster in the Deb. OTOH I don't have near
the wing loading as the SR-22. That has a long high aspect ratio,
laminar flow wing.


An aircraft that *requires* it in this GA space is not going far. But I
don't think plus/minus 1knot is required

Nor do I.

The SR-22 really isn't quite that finicky. However they do teach not
to come in nose high and drop the gear on in a full stall landing.

I figure that airspeed management is the airplane, not me. On an
absolutely calm day I can trim to any desired airspeed and take it all
the way to the round out, hands off the yoke without being able to
detect movement of the ASI from that spot. That includes making minor
adjustments to the power if necessary. Actually you can make a
substantial power adjustment without changing the airspeed as long as
it's not abrupt.

If it's not a calm day, which is most of the time, the airspeed will
jump around quite a bit.


Of course you are TW qualified....

Let's see... I flew one of those contraptions back in about 1956.
Haven't flown one since.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Sorry, I have no idea what this means.

Stefan