This thread started as a emergency procedure response.... The question was, since you have no flaps or rudder how could you safely land a coupe if you were high but not high enough to go around....
I responded with how the coupe could be "S" 'ed to produce the same effect as a slip to lose a lot of altitude without picking up a lot of energy(speed), and how the book sez.. to apply the break BEFORE you land to shorten the landing roll. >From this we got into a lot of other things...... I think some thought I was describing "normal" practice not a emergency off airport landing... Any way I have a D I find no problem, but you can get in trouble with it... I learned a bit backward I guess, I started flying off logging roads in a 172.... ******Owners Thoughts I find landing the 415-D works best for me if I operate it as I would a 172 on a soft or short runway. I slow fly it and carry about 1200 rpm and 70 "over the fence", once over the fence I reduce power to idle and normally hit the control stops and the runway at the same time, I lower the nose and roll out with controls neutral. This is "normal"....It doesn't happen that way very often, but a number of people ask me if all my landings are that smooth.... "Well you bet they are"...... *******End Owners Ramblings I have never flown any other Coupe but my own, she is special, being a D with a full gyro panel and a O-200 your mileage may very.... Ron Burke Owner of N2273H '46 415-D -----Original Message----- From: Jack Gocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 8:47 AM Subject: Landing techniques >Coupers > > I get the impression that I am the only one that lands with the engine at >idle. I pull the carb heat on and reduce throttle to idle in the base leg, >slow it down to 80 on final and start to flare when I'm getting ground >effect and am approaching the numbers. I do get rapid decent in my 415-D at >80 and at idle but so what, that's the way I learned to fly. I only use the >throttle on final to periodically clear the engine or if I am coming in too >low. > Doesn't anyone else do it that way? > >Jack G. (U42)Utah >N103JF, SN:745
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