PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Floater Fields
Thread: Floater Fields
View Single Post
Old 30th Sep 2004, 08:38
  #3 (permalink)  
pbloore
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Worcestershire, UK
Posts: 26
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
I agree, sounds like your approach speed is too high. The POH should give you some recommended speeds for short field landings, but I would practise slow flying and handling at a safe height first.

Normal rule of thumb is 1.3 x stall speed as a minimum. The problem is that if you drop much below this on approach you usually end up on the back end of the drag curve which means you need height or a lot of power to recover. Practise makes perfect as they say.
pbloore is offline