george wrote in news:7f70e262-6325-4261-b69b-
:

On Apr 26, 11:36 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Well, increasing flap always increases drag and never really improves
things. he already has some out but if he hadn't any out and added
the
first notch it might have helped him a bit. Doubt it though.

Yup
Flap was the least of his worries.
You -have to- lower the nose to gain flying speed.
A very unnatural thing for the untrained to do with the scenery going
by so close..


Yess, I agree, though you'd think that someone doing that sort of flying
would be fairly good at things like that.. THe strip certainly looks
ling enough, but I have no idea how high up they are either. That looks
like a 182 to me, BTW.


Bertie