Originally Posted by
DaveUnwin
Alpha is controlled by the elevator and can easily be greater than 20 degrees in a snap/flick roll. The wing just isn't generating any lift. Operating from soft and/or short fields is - as you clearly know Markkal -very different from a smooth tarmac runway. On tarmac, leaving the nosewheel on the ground is the safest and most efficient course of action.
Yes about Alpha (I own an sbach XA42 and enjoy flicks) As well as I enjoy the tecnam P2008 from the club; But past a certain angle Alpha increses on a stalled wing,
I also concur leaving the nosewhel on the ground is te safest way to go on concrete, but start to ease it off at a shallow angle at POH rotation speed is the way to go, not to pull it off the ground 20 knots faster, that is something I see every day; Tendency to take off fast and land fast....