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Old 9th May 2009 | 15:49
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griffothefog
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PtKay,

You are obviously an accident waiting to happen...

I quote from " Flying a new generation Gyrocopter" by Phil Harwood.

" Climb out is probably the worst time to get an engine failure and the time between 20ft and 150ft is probably the worst. As soon as you detect an engine failure you must smoothly get the stick forward and the gyrocopter into a nose down attitude as quickly as possible, even if initially the nose down attitude seems too great. It is easy to bleed off speed in the flare. The only way to get speed without power is TOO LOWER THE NOSE. This takes skill and a quick reaction"

FH1100 seems to know his stuff dummy.....
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