nigelspeedy
Well Known Member
Howdy All,
So after about 100 hours in my 8 I figure its about time I learnt how to land it. My cunning plan is to do an experiment starting with fast approach speeds and gradually reduce them until I find out what is safe, predictable and has some margin for gusts/turbulence/poor handling.
So I realize that your particular aircrafts approach speed will change with weight, altitude, the temperature and a host of instrument and position errors, so to keep it simple for my simple farm boy brain what is the the '"last look" number you see on short final as a function of your stall speed in that configuration? So do you like your airspeed to be 1.1 or 1.4 or 1.x? times the stall speed?
To get things going I did a flight path stability experiment. My 1g power off stall speed with 40 deg flap is about 50 KIAS so 55 is 1.1 Vs, 60 is 1.2 Vs etc. Keeping power constant I varied airspeed and noted the rate of descent and plotted that as well as the resulting flight path angle (gamma).
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Cheers
Nige
So after about 100 hours in my 8 I figure its about time I learnt how to land it. My cunning plan is to do an experiment starting with fast approach speeds and gradually reduce them until I find out what is safe, predictable and has some margin for gusts/turbulence/poor handling.
So I realize that your particular aircrafts approach speed will change with weight, altitude, the temperature and a host of instrument and position errors, so to keep it simple for my simple farm boy brain what is the the '"last look" number you see on short final as a function of your stall speed in that configuration? So do you like your airspeed to be 1.1 or 1.4 or 1.x? times the stall speed?
To get things going I did a flight path stability experiment. My 1g power off stall speed with 40 deg flap is about 50 KIAS so 55 is 1.1 Vs, 60 is 1.2 Vs etc. Keeping power constant I varied airspeed and noted the rate of descent and plotted that as well as the resulting flight path angle (gamma).
Cheers
Nige