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Old 11-12-2003 | 08:09 AM
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Default RE: Giles Video

Slow airspeed won't snap it all by itself, but instead it will just do a normal forward stall, and recovery is normal by just adding some power and relaxing the elevator a tad. If you want it to snap at slow speed, you have to give it snap roll control inputs. And when you do slow it down, then tell it to snap, it snaps and comes right around and when you recover you would swear its standing still in the air. I then just add power and fly away. The slow speed flight on this plane always seemed to amaze the pilots that see it for the first time. Its not snap happy on its own, but very docile. Landing speed is the same with the Giles as it is on all my other 35% and 40% airplanes. Nothing unusual about it. That has been my experience with the 40% Carden Giles, about standard weight, with a DA-150 and JR 8411's all around.

I'll try to compress some more video of it and put it up on my site. I'll let you know when I get it done.

Nice job on your airplane. Now get that puppy in the air