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Hi Leslie,
I agree completely, and also am aware that airspeed indicators vary as
to accuracy from plane to
plane.
Sometime on an 'ideal' day, lower your speeds by about 5 mph and do a
couple of take offs and
landings and see how they feel to you.
I let my coupe take off when it's ready to 'lift', usually about 55.
I turn final and get 'lined
up' at 65 and although I usually don't look at the airspeed indicator
again, I have glanced at it out of
curiosity and I touch down at about 55 in a 'slight' flare and if all
prevailing circumstances are as
usual it's very smooth and (except for the normal feeling of landing on a
grass strip) you never know
when the ground is contacted. On a hard surfaced runway at fly-ins the
only indicsation is a 'churp'
of the tires (usually).
About the only time I get a rough landing is when I come in a little
'hot' and have to force it to
stop flying. (caused by to high or to fast when turning final.)
With a long enough runway, they would all be 'squeakers', just hold
the flare a little longer and
ride along on that wonderful cushion of air called 'ground effect' and
it'll touchdown, gently, when
it's ready to stop flying.
That's my 2 cents worth for tonight. (Or should I say this morning,
it's past midnight.) Have to get
up early as there is an "Antique and Classic" meet about 75 miles South of
here Saturday and our monthly
'Oregon Ercoupe Erforce' Fly-In about 50 miles North of here on Sunday.
Gee, 'Ain't air meets
great'?????
Bob Saville
N3396H 415C
Eugene, OR
BTW, Congratulations all all those great landings! There's an old
saying..."If it ain't broke, don't
fix it". (However, it never hurts to 'experiment' a little with different
speeds and techniques.) ;
-)
N161LH 3B9 wrote:
> ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following
any advice in this forum.]----
>
> The fellow who trained me how to fly 'Coupes was very firm about one
thing.
> He told me that if I had enough runway, I could land at full flying
speed if
> I had to, but that until I _really_ knew my airplane to never, never,
never
> land it slow. He taught me to rotate at 60, climb at 80, final at 80,
land
> at 75. I haven't had a hard one yet, and I'm at about 150 hours in my
> birdie, so I guess it was pretty good advice. He said he'd seen more
> 'Coupes landed hard because of low airspeed than for any other reason.
>
> Leslie Holbrook
> Alon A2 N161LH (Flying Colors #1)
> Chester, CT 3B9
>
> From: craig hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > A few months ago someone on the net said the Coupe should be flown
like
> > a high performance airplane. Some might laugh - but he was exactly
> > correct! Maybe when the Coupe was new and much lighter you could fly
the
> > approach speeds you see in the manuals. But a lot of the very slow
> > approach speeds came about in the days of very short runways. Now
most
> > of us are using 4000 ft. plus there is no need to be so slow on
final.
> > Craig 2623H>
>
>
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