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Old 15th Dec 2016, 11:29
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mikehallam
 
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For those of you with little or no experience of flying, especially LANDING, a F/W microlight - The 1.3 Vs works well provided that at that speed you come in & over the fence with power right through to touch down.

Obviously that's simplified, for the pedants here one uses reduce power to maintain the correct speed till in some cases only inches off the ground.
The landing remains very short and (nearly) always satisfyingly smooth.

That avoids the otherwise loss of airspeed and falling the last 6 feet onto the ground, if one attempts the regular GA a/c glide for the last part of finals. The exception is with loss of the donk when one dives much faster to use that kinetic energy for ensuring enough momentum remains for round out.

If the OP is really worried about such nuances in a general article in a magazine - not the handling notes for that 'plane - then a nice letter to them would likely have some beneficial effect or alternatively generate a bog standard disclaimer to all articles !

mike hallam. (Rans S4 pilot)
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