Originally Posted by
BigEndBob
I was checking out old boy, passed now, wound on full rudder trim before take off.
Thought he was back in his Spitfire.
Quite a few pilots lost in Spitfires during take off and landing . Shed loads of rudder trim is probably what saved him .
Fear is a great trainer .
Once someone is familiar with just how much drag you can get with full flaps it becomes fun . Turn final at circuit height use the drag to lose seven hundred feet . Power retard , full flaps and point it at the ground , you can go from being mad high to too low very quickly by using a very nose low attitude . Not as much fun as dropping an MU 2 from 10,000 feet at ten mile final . Pretty sure it could have made it from eight miles but we might have missed the first exit
