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DON'T drop into the low lift/high drag airspeeds. Any CFI should be alarmed by that technique to lose altitude. If you encounter even the slightest amount of wind shear you are in big trouble. There are two approved methods to lose altitude if you find you are too high on final: 1. Do slight S turns on final while keeping the power at idle. The turning forces bleed off lots of altitude while the airspeed still stays high enough to get you out of trouble. 2. Lower your side windows and hold your left arm out with the palm of your hand flat against the airflow. Have your passenger do the same with his/her right arm. The extra drag reduces your airspeed so you lower the nose enough to keep the airspeed up (I use 75 mph on final) and then you lose altitude quickly without getting fast. Bring your arms back in when you are around 50' above the runway. You may look funny to folks watching, but it really works. Your arms act as flaps. Syd Cohen Greg Bullough wrote: > > But Ercoupes need flaps. They just don't have them. So if we're high > and hot and don't want > to go around, we intentionally drop into the low lift/high drag > airspeeds, and sink a ways. That > will work in a Cessna, also. Alarms the hell out of the kid CFI doing > your BFR though :-) > > > Greg > > > ========================================================================== ==== > 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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