Going for my Multiengine rating
No, and with full flaps it pull an greater aoa for the same
authority(down force). It stalls. And the nose can drop real hard. As
the stab moves into ground effect the aoa increases also. The Cessna
Cardinal had this problem, which later got addressed with slots in the
stabilator.
Greg Esres wrote:
The Visitor wrote:
To flare nice with full flaps invites a tail stall.
Not likely. You will lose elevator authority, but the AOA gets
smaller as the tail moves down.
why there is the abundance of nose gear collapses in the type.
Actually, there is an AD out on the Seneca nose gear. The collapses
are generally due to misrigging of the airplane. Friend of mine has a
nosewheel collapse after a full stall, nose high landing.
Generally? I'm sorry about your friend and a misrigged gear on anything
is a hazard. And the pa34 nose gear (like any) can be mis-rigged.But the
seneca nose gears take a pounding because of the way they are flown. It
leads to failures.
John
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