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Old 11-07-2009 | 11:13 PM
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Default RE: Low wing trainer spoilerons?

If you want to slow the plane down, go to an APC12 1/4 x 3 3/4 prop. It's going to cut your top end down some, and if you don't watch it, it will let you over rev your engine, but when you cut the throttle, it is like stepping on the brakes. You have to adjust your engine so it will idle reiabaily at 2200 rpm and still answer the call for a go around, but that prop will put on the brakes like no other.

After hitting the road across the end of our runway, and cliping the fence once, I usually come in high and at full idle and that prop will let me land about 1/2 way down our 500 ft runway with no head wind. With a slight head wind, I've got to watch that I don't set down to soon.

Don