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I'm with Hartmut. I can fly around at below 50mph IAS all day and not lose altitude with the correct throttle setting. Of course that wouldn't be considered a normal cruise, but it's certainly possible. The original poster seemed to want to fly in cruise with his buddies with their slower airplanes. This is easily done (70-80 mph) with no harm to anything except your sanity, you will be bored silly at those speeds. The Coupes make much better use of their ponies than most aircraft. As for "falling out of the sky" at lower airspeeds, why propagate that myth?? The Coupes sink more than the notorious Cessna floaters that we are all trained on, but that simply means it takes a couple of flights to learn new habits. I quickly came to appreciate the Coupes' characteristics and now dislike the Cessnas' tendency to resist landing. My landings are consistently much better with the Coupes. ---------------------------- From: Hartmut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] Slowest Cruise Speeds That does not make sense. When flying slow , the engine does not generate much heat, the cowl flaps on a Coupe are wide open all the time and I doubt a extreme nose high attitude is given at speeds at around 85 MPH.... I find my Coupe extreme nose high with 45 MPH, but would not consider this a practical low speed flying technique. All other Speeds should allow for sufficient cooling in regard to the power setting. Hartmut __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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