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Old 19th November 2003 | 03:40
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Gertrude the Wombat
 
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Lightbulb Landing a 172

Well, waddya know.

Conventional wisdom, and what other people have said here, has it that the problem a 152 pilot has when trying to land a 172 for the first time is that the thing floats like b*gg*ry.

It does too, I discovered on my first attempt.

But I thought about this and had another go ... and discovered that if you approach at the right speed the 172 lands itself, exactly as advertised.

From which I deduce that the phenomenon we're actually seeing is that the 172 is a lot less tolerant than the 152 of the pilot who approaches five knots too fast.

Have I got this right then?
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