Plastic planes are fast but landing speed too high

On 2006-06-18, P S wrote:
I received some marketing brouchures from one of the best
selling "composite plane" on the market, with an invitation
to take a ride. Well, I was tempted until I found out how high
the Vso is. The plane goes in on final at 80 kts.

Which means, 80 kias is the speed you use for emergency
landing.

That's the final approach speed for many high performance singles. Even
the Arrow (which isn't really high performance) has a final approach
speed of something like 90mph (around 80 knots). The Bonanza manual,
IIRC recommends 80 knots for a power off landing.

If you don't want a final approach speed of 80, fly something slow.

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Dylan Smith wrote:

That's the final approach speed for many high performance singles. Even
the Arrow (which isn't really high performance) has a final approach
speed of something like 90mph (around 80 knots). The Bonanza manual,
IIRC recommends 80 knots for a power off landing.

POH says 78 kts for the Piper Turbo Arrow IV. (max gross wt, aft most
allowable cg)

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:58:30 -0000, Dylan Smith
wrote:

On 2006-06-18, P S wrote:
I received some marketing brouchures from one of the best
selling "composite plane" on the market, with an invitation
to take a ride. Well, I was tempted until I found out how high
the Vso is. The plane goes in on final at 80 kts.

Which means, 80 kias is the speed you use for emergency
landing.

That's the final approach speed for many high performance singles. Even
the Arrow (which isn't really high performance) has a final approach
speed of something like 90mph (around 80 knots). The Bonanza manual,
IIRC recommends 80 knots for a power off landing.

Yup and it has a relatively light wing loading right in there with the
Cherokee. The 80 knots is to have enough energy to be able to
sucessfully flare and arrest the rate of descent into a nice landing.


If you don't want a final approach speed of 80, fly something slow.

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