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Thomas Borchert wrote:

Matt,

What I don't know is what the stall characeristics are.


Utterly harmless. Just mushing down.

FWIW, my experience in the SR-22 is that it's easier to land than a
C182RG. I porpoised that damned 182 more times than I can count.

The SR22 has only given me one serious surprise. I am in the habit of
coming in a little high and hot (the thing sinks like a brick without
power, and I want to have a little extra margin if I lose the engine on
final), chopping the last bit of power at 100' AGL and bleeding off the
last bit of airspeed on the way down to the ground. (Also, my home base
is VNY which has an 8000 foot runway, so overshooting is pretty unlikely
:-)

I was trying to land from the right seat one day (with an instructor)
and so I was being really careful to nail all my airspeeds. I was
dead-on at 80 knots but I still chopped the power at 100' as was my
habit. The plane felt perfectly normal all the way down except that it
didn't settle into ground effect. Instead, it slammed hard onto the
runway and bounced up about 20 feet. (My instructor didn't notice
anything amiss until we hit either.) I recovered by adding power and
going around. The stall horn never went off. And this was after three
good landings immediately before, and hundreds of prior good landings
from the left seat. To this day I'm still not 100% sure what went
wrong, but I don't want to repeat the experience to find out. It was by
far the hardest landing I've ever done, but my instructor said he's seen
a lot worse.

rg