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Some timid people have chickened out on dropping the nose and diving toward the runway as they approach the ground. Theyve generally folded under the nose gear and sometimes gotten more damage from that failure. Too little too late, cuz once the sink is established, you need a good 50 or 100 feet to sort it UNLESS you get on the power. The better alternative is to exercise really good approach control using approach path and power to avoid needing to lose altitude fast. Indeed! Well executed, you can always be within gliding range of the threshold yet not too high. Another tool is using a high bank angle from downwind to base or base to final while chanting out loud, over and over, ONLY in a Coupe, ONLY in a Coupe, ONLY in a Coupe, &. We have a guy at our field who can do that in his Partenavia cabin-class twin. I would assert that landing a Coupe well requires a higher skill level than does a Spam Can because you cant slip to correct approach errors. Yes, and after so many Koops pancaked, Cessna designed their 140-, 150-, and 170-series to forgive those errors and just plop down as if they had an emergency chute. They went to school on us, in the quest for the safest airplane. Yet the low-airspeed/high-sink-rate trick is available if you need it, also while reciting out loud, over and over, ONLY in a Coupe, ONLY in a Coupe, ONLY in a Coupe, &. :-) Works okay in a 7ECA, too :-) If you're flying straight on long final, why the hell not? It's not going to spin straight and level, and if you do stall it, it isn't going to fall off one way or another (unless it's hideously out of rig, but you'd know that because you were out flying twisties anyway). The 'sink' region is still well above the stall region in most planes, and short-field approach speed is usually 1.1 Vso anyway. Hell, carrier pilots flew their approaches at that speed all the time :-) Greg ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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