Extra slow flight - Ground speed that is! - Video

wrote:

Windy today so figured it would be a good day for "slow flight" 20
knots on the surface so I was curious what it was above my head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kyjc7y1aAI

For safety reasons, I did not go to stall speed on the airspeed
indicator since my hand was not on the throttle for recovery. I could
have easily gotten the ground speed to single digits as I still had 10
knots above stall speed on the ASI.

Incredibly, the air was glass smooth above the scattered clouds as
demonstrated by my passenger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-zwDkNzn-8

I have gone in reverse in a C-150 before. Trim for very slow airspeed
and right into the wind. Look down and the plane is going backwards to
the ground. My instructor first showed me this trick.

Ross

On 2009-02-28, Ross wrote:
I have gone in reverse in a C-150 before. Trim for very slow airspeed
and right into the wind. Look down and the plane is going backwards to
the ground. My instructor first showed me this trick.

It's relatively easy to do in our Auster. Placarded stall speed, flaps
down power on, is 29 mph(!) our normal approach speed is 50 mph, and
short field 40 mph. (You can make a wheel landing out of a 50 mph
approach power off). The disadvantage is that ground handling can be
troublesome when it's windy. The sink rate at 40 mph power off is very
high too, so to stop the flare timing from being critical, a little
power is handy when approaching this slowly.

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On Mar 1, 5:19*am, Dylan Smith wrote:
On 2009-02-28, Ross wrote:

I have gone in reverse in a C-150 before. Trim for very slow airspeed
and right into the wind. Look down and the plane is going backwards to
the ground. My instructor first showed me this trick.

It's relatively easy to do in our Auster. Placarded stall speed, flaps
down power on, is 29 mph(!) our normal approach speed is 50 mph, and
short field 40 mph. (You can make a wheel landing out of a 50 mph
approach power off). The disadvantage is that ground handling can be
troublesome when it's windy. The sink rate at 40 mph power off is very
high too, so to stop the flare timing from being critical, a little
power is handy when approaching this slowly.


The MS880 was pretty good at that.
The instructor had a term for it calling it 'riding the updrafts' and
would let the aircraft drift back over the takeoff point to impress
students

I have gone in reverse in a C-150 before. Trim for very slow airspeed
and right into the wind. Look down and the plane is going backwards to
the ground. My instructor first showed me this trick.


Would be fun to land in reverse.. if you turn base too late, you will
never make it :-0)