Buying a 1-35 pros and cons?

On Monday, 25 March 2013 17:31:52 UTC-4, wrote:

I teach transitioning 1-35 pilots to put the flaps in 30 on downwind(assuming angles look right) and add flap when they stert to look high. It works quite well.

I own a 1-35 and have about 75 landings in it. You're right! Your advice is what it says to do in the POH. As I've posted before, people get quite confused about the poor, complex, and contradictory advice given about 1-35's. Ignoring it all and using the POH method gives the best results as you have outlined. It's simple and works very well. Using it, my first landing was one of my best, until I started trying variations.

Thanks for mentioning the issue "If flying at an appropriate pattern speed( my definition of this is not ever below flaps up stall speed until in the flare)" Stall speed is very slow with full flaps, so if you fly that slow and move the flaps to zero there is going to be a problem unless you remember to keep the airspeed up appropriately.