... On 2006-06-07, Ron Garret
wrote:
At 80 knots and no power you probably didn't have any lift reserve.

Huh? That doesn't make sense. Even with the relatively high stall speed
(though, as has been pointed out, at lower than max weight, so is the stall
speed lowered), there's a good 20 knots plus of airspeed to convert to lift.

[...]
I'm willing to bet the lift curve of an SR-22 wing gets relatively flat
at slow airspeeds before it even stalls - so at low airspeeds,
increasing the AoA doesn't increase lift that much.

What lift curve are you talking about? Lift is proportional to airspeed and
angle of attack, regardless of the wing. Up to the point of the stall, you
need more lift, you just increase the angle of attack. It's a linear
change.

Pete