Originally Posted by Wayne_Westerman
DJ,
That is a very interesting looking plane! With leading edge slats and full span flaps it looks like it could almost hover. The horizontal stabilizer is also quit interesting. Way plenty of visibility too. I’ll just bet that it would be a hoot to fly.

Thanks for the picture.


Thanks Wayne, you're right, it will almost hover but requires gobs of power to do so once you get it down to just above the stall with full flap. If you pull the power completely on approach it comes out of the sky like a manhole cover so to achieve a short field landing there's a lot of throttle jockeying involved.

In saying that, it was possible to come over the threshold at 500 ft, pull the throttle & push the nose way down to maintain 55 kts, land & taxi off the first taxiway around 450 mtrs down the strip.

It's definitely not a cruiser & I sold it about 2 years ago when I bought my 150 D.

Regardz

DJ

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