After watching a 415-c fly againt the chains in a West Texas sand storm, I wondered how slow a coupe would fly. Shortly thereafter, I got out the bird and set off to see. I applied full throttle and pulled to nose wheel off as soon as I could. This resulted in nothing except a rather high A of A and would not let the airplane accelerate. So I lowered the nose just a bit and then hauled the wheel back and the airplane lifted off the ground to a height of about 40 feet with an extreme angle of attack and NO indicated airspeed. The needle was firmly planted against the stop. Ofcourse I had an airspeed, however, I do not know at what speed the instrument first starts to register. The problem is that I was not flying, I was in ground effect, but no longer over a runway. It took me better than twenty minutes of trading off little amounts of thermal lift for airspeed to get that plane flying....really flying. Glad I did it cause I know the plane better, but I dont recommend it.
stewart
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