twernt me. I was trying to get a chap up to speed for test flying his Jodel.
whanged it on and did a stupendous bounce ...then froze.
"come on fly the aeroplane"
just froze
"fly the f*****g aeroplane!"
still froze.
"my aeroplane"
full power and try to fly it out. nothing doing. saved in the horrendous crash by Wittman's rear facing spring legs. the prop tips must have come so close.
in the wubbleyew ate the minimum drag speed is computed to be 80 knots.
so a landing around 45 knots is MILES and MILES on the back side of the power curve.
bounce and sit there paralysed and wash the speed off even more and the parasitic drag from the air swirling off the wingtips is so great that you can feel the deceleration.
result is that I will never try to bring people up to speed in my aircraft ever again.