Mike Willis wrote:
* . . . the high rate of sink when you get slow, * inability to get the speed up at all by lowering the * nose on short finals Ah, Mike, you can get lots of speed back by lowering the nose on short final. But, you must lower the nose a lot! Admittedly, this is hard to do when you are approaching the ground. And, it would be disastrous to do if you were too low when you realized you were too slow. In my humble opinion, Coupes take a higher skill level to fly the approach well but a lower-than-tail-dragger skill level to land well. The Coupes will tolerate excess speed on final pretty well (very short fields excepted). But they don't tolerate low speeds on final as they, like other thick, short wing aircraft (Piper short-wings, in example) have very deep sink rates at low speeds. Ed
