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Old 08-15-2005 | 02:33 PM
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Default RE: Recommendations for second plane.

Now I'm beginning to understand what you are saying - how much throttle are you coming in with (downwind, base leg, and final)? It also seems that you might have your idle up to high if it is speeding up on final. As for the bouncing, that might be becuase of the music wire landing gear (if so equipped).
I did have the throttle high because I couldn't get the idle needle lean enough, but then I figured out that I can screw in the throttle stop a little which lets me turn in the idle needle in just a little bit more while still allowing the carb to close enough to kill the engine. While I had the high idle problem I basically had to learn to side slip, now that I have that issue resolved the thing goes soooo sloooow on aproch that it feels very odd to fly. In fact the first time I got a really slow final I as supprised at how mushy my controls where.

As far as bounce goes, I'm not talking about landing bounce, I'm talking about bouncing around on the final. Isn't that called ground effect or something?

Sorry about the confusion, I have had both slow and fast landings, and in both cases would prefer a faster stall speed, because the fast landings pretty much required side slipping, and the slow landings just feel really odd after learning to sideslip on fast approaches.

schu