Cirrus down, Chapel Hill NC

On Jul 24, 3:43*pm, "Stephen!" wrote:
" wrote in news:36a79c66-d103-46fb-
:

previously owned, just as your experiences, too much speed and you
float kind dom kong.

* Is that anywhere near Kingdom Come? *:P

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Speaking of kingdoms come and gone, try this sometime. Get slowed down
to 80 knots at an altitude that's good for stall practice, retard the
throttle and start a stop watch and hold altitude: see how long it
takes to get you to almost stall. Do the same thing at 75 kts
indicated, then 70, then 65, build a graph. Say the average speed from
80 to 55 or whatever is 67, figure out how far into the kingdom (AKA
past the threshold) you'd have gone, do the same calculation for the
other speeds, and remember because of ground effect you'd probably add
30% to that distance. You need a bigger and bigger kingdom if you
carry too much speed into the flare.

It's even worse if, as has been suggested, there's a bit of a tail
wind in the case of the Cirrus. You might be carrying 65 knots
airspeed at 10 feet AGL, but because of the wind gradient, that might
turn into 68 knots at 5 feet AGL and you have to fly that much farther
to burn off that energy and get the damn thing to stop flying. That
may have bought the pilot and one other an early and unfortunate
admission into the next kingdom.

The likely lesson is, learn or relearn to control your energy!