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Old 6th Mar 2012, 19:35
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Out of interest, what's prompting you to TO with flaps? Unless you've got a particularly short or soft takeoff run, flaps up is generally best, I believe.
2 reasons really, 1. The POH says this is the correct method, and secondly when I was buying the Maule from the Maule factory, Mr Ray Maule took me for a test flight and he used 24 Dgrs. (the first positive stage) and that was on a runway of about 6000ft, so I figured that was probably the best way to fly it.
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