Centaurus
Regarding the rigging issue
I was under the impression that aeroplanes were rigged to fly S+L at cruise settings.
Surely this is not the same as the approach configuration. Power is different, flap is down instead of up, everything is more unstable and there's proportionately more torque than airflow over the rudder, with hardly anything over the outer wing.
I remember my Tomahawk rating (after CPL on Warriors, then instructing on C152 which I initially thought was pretty severe). It's the only type rating I don't like - even with no power and no flap it snapped a different way each time of four stalls. (?!)
I don't think a correctly rigged aeroplane will necessarily NOT drop any wing.
And Squawk8888, I don't notice any buffet in a S+L stall in a c152, with or without flap. The only ways I can get it to buffet are to
1) pull 4+ G (waaaaaaaay too much) going into a loop, or to ...
2) balls up a stall turn by ruddering too late or...
3) hit my own wake in a steep/max rate turn (LOVE that feeling)
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Confident, cocky, lazy, dead.
[This message has been edited by chicken6 (edited 12 August 2000).]