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Old 23rd Nov 2005, 03:34
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gaunty

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Pretty eh. 190 KTAS at 10,000 ft was to be pressurised to take advantage of the "flat rated" engines 200 plus kts, but it got caught up in the liabilities BS and and all piston engined production was stopped.

It was a joy to demonstrate you could hit the circuit downwind at 180kts bottom of descent with appropriate circuit power set select the gear and landing flap and hands OFF, NO trimming auto deceleration within the flap limits as it travels out, by the time you got to base everything is configured and speed at Vref no trimming required.
No ballooning, no waiting for speeds to bleed off for gear and flaps, you could sit behind ANYTHING clean on approach at their speed and still have heaps of time to get slowed for landing.

It was designed that way.
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