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Old 27th August 2000 | 13:42
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stiknruda
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I am very much with BEagle on this (what with Beagler and BEagle being so similar but diametrically opposed in their views, hope I've got the right one!)

If a wing drops on final - I pick it up with aileron and at the same time put in the commensurate amount of rudder to keep the ball centred, OR 'cause I have no flaps and slip it in, keep the side slip the same.

My a/c stalls at 63mph but I run down final at 90mph (42% faster than stall speed) I recall Thom suggesting that you use 1.3 times stall speed. If the wing drops at anything above 70 on a stabilised 1G approach, then it can not have stalled, so I just fly the aeroplane normally. I used 70 as a guide because side slipping affects my ASI accuracy - with the pitot pointing obliquely into relative wind it tends to under read so 70 gives me a fair margin.

Do I detect two camps here? One the military trained, the other civvy trained. Bet BEagle didn't learn on Cessnas!

sNr