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January 1st 05, 12:27 AM
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I have to try your method. Maybe I can get my pattern flying without
'thinking' at all. Right now it is semi-smooth but completely not mindless. In a Warrior-II, 152 or 172P with just an instructor and a student, setting 2100 RPM on downwind, and trimming for hands off flight seems to set the airplane up for a normal approach speed when using 20-deg of flaps, and the short-field approach speed with 30-deg of flaps. Are you sure about the RPM? The method I've been taught is drop the RPM to 1600-1700 (weight depending) when abeam the numbers and throw in one notch flaps and pitch for 90 KIAS. On base, 2 notches of flaps and pitch for 80 KIAS and on final 3 notches and pitch for 70 KIAS. At 2100 RPM, I'd still a few hundred feet off the ground. Gerald 
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