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John, May I please disagree? In the early days of having my Coupe, I went up one smooth day and slowly pulled back the power 100 rpm at a time to determine the slowest rpm and speed I could fly. It's been a lot of years so my memory is fuzzy. Also, my airspeed indicator back then gave readings about 15% faster than my true speed. As I recall, the lowest rpm at which I could stay up was about 1850 or so and the speed was 65 mph or so indicated. Sorry I can't retest since I sold my Coupe last spring. Please let me assert that Coupes will fly pretty slowly on not much fuel AS LONG AS YOU DON'T GO THAT TINY BIT TOO SLOW (which would get into the back side of the power curve). The nose is somewhat up in the air at this airspeed, though, and you need to fly with a light touch so you don't slip to the bad side of the power curve when you really are at the low end. I did make some low indicated airspeed cross country flights up above 10,000' (see the Stick and Rudder section called "There's Gold in Them There Hills") and got about 400 miles range with reserves. Ed Burkhead http://edburkhead.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Jon Page [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 9:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] Slowest Cruise Speeds ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- Jeff. A coupe is the happiest at 90 to 110 M.P.H. If you slow down to 70 to 80 M.P.H. you need more throttle to maintain altitude and the slower you go, the more nose up you have to be to stay up there. Your not in any danger of dropping off into a spin or a violent stall, just a mushing descent that will creep up on you if your daydreaming. Generally the coupe isn't comfortable below 85 or 90 M.P.H. and with the power off it will fall out of the sky below 70 to 75 M.P.H. like a chrome plated manhole cover. One solution would be to get some faster friends! Jon Page FLAK MAGNET 415-C ========================================================================== == == To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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