thanks Hans, I'll sure do that, hopefully soon
Funnily enough, I've had 2 Falcos before, flew the last one, HB-UOD, for some 7 years before coming back to aluminum...
I found the Falco having about the same performance top speed wise, but with a higher stall and approach speed. This resulted in my "minimum" no obstacles runway length on the Falco being 400m vs 200m for the -6.
The retracts were finicky, alway happy to have the greens after having moved that switch down
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This in turn prevented operating off grass, but for the best surfaced greens.
Control harmony was (gotta be real careful what I write here
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) slightly better than the Van's I know of, better harmony and a slightly heavier pitch.
But the Falco stall can be interesting... not to be done at low level, very easy to get a secondary stall.
Final thoughts, Falco vs RV-6 (having now flown both for approx 650hrs):
- the Falco wins easily on looks being the most sexy single engine aircraft on the planet, period (just look at those wings)
- the Falco has a slight edge in handling, but loose that advantage in stall characteristics
- on performance the RV wins, by a wide margin. Not for top speed (same HP the RV is slightly faster), but on speed ratio
- the RV wins on simplicity
- and the Vans win on building time by a wide margin... count about 9K hours on a Falco with the kits (not available anymore AFAIN)