N941WR
Legacy Member
There have been a lot of threads on how people land their RV; be it a -3, -4, or whatever.
I have a friend who was really into aerobatics and has owned a number of various acro birds; Pitts, Ultimate, G-202, and now flies an F1 Rocket. He is a great pilot and I’ve seen him do things that airplanes shouldn’t do.
He had been bugging me to try out the -9 and we were never at the same place at the same time with the plane, until today.
We climbed out, which he thought was anemic. No surprise there. Two big guys with a FP prop RV compared to his monster F1 would seem slow.
He was very impressed at how nice the plane flew and particularly how the rudder felt.
Then we did a series of stalls, flaps up and flaps down, straight ahead and accelerated. Again, he was really impressed at how well the -9 flew and how quickly it recovered.
Then it was time to land. It took him four approaches to get the -9 down on the 5500’ runway we were using. On one go around he tried an engine out return to the airport from 700 feet and had to go around. Then he tried his Rocket approach and w/o the prop helping slow him down we had to go around again. We were both laughing at his inability to get the thing down and slow.
He was stunned at how well the plane just held altitude and how nice it flew.
His fourth and final approach was a winner and he greased it on, as I was expecting from a man of his talents.
When he got out his parting comment was that for a plane that flies as slow as the -9 and yet doesn’t give up anything on the top end was truly amazing.
I have a friend who was really into aerobatics and has owned a number of various acro birds; Pitts, Ultimate, G-202, and now flies an F1 Rocket. He is a great pilot and I’ve seen him do things that airplanes shouldn’t do.
He had been bugging me to try out the -9 and we were never at the same place at the same time with the plane, until today.
We climbed out, which he thought was anemic. No surprise there. Two big guys with a FP prop RV compared to his monster F1 would seem slow.
He was very impressed at how nice the plane flew and particularly how the rudder felt.
Then we did a series of stalls, flaps up and flaps down, straight ahead and accelerated. Again, he was really impressed at how well the -9 flew and how quickly it recovered.
Then it was time to land. It took him four approaches to get the -9 down on the 5500’ runway we were using. On one go around he tried an engine out return to the airport from 700 feet and had to go around. Then he tried his Rocket approach and w/o the prop helping slow him down we had to go around again. We were both laughing at his inability to get the thing down and slow.
He was stunned at how well the plane just held altitude and how nice it flew.
His fourth and final approach was a winner and he greased it on, as I was expecting from a man of his talents.
When he got out his parting comment was that for a plane that flies as slow as the -9 and yet doesn’t give up anything on the top end was truly amazing.
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