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Old 5th Jan 2008, 19:17
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Only thing which irritated me about it was the manner of the landing...very flat (with just two in the front) and hard, it just seems to float and then drop, not like the PA28 at all. Could anyone offer any advice on how to make the landings better? I'm told all the Piper light twins are like this.
Welcome to the game of chance called "landing the Twin Com". The unpredictability of landing seems to be a standing joke among TC owners.

I think the fundamental problem (probably not shared by other Piper twins) is the high deck angle in the normal ground attitude. It was supposed to be so the passengers could climb straight on to the aft wing without a step. A consequence seems to be an uncomfortably narrow window between that ground attitude (at which you just about avoid breaking the nosewheel) and the stall attitude. Vortex generators seem to help.
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