pjc
Well Known Member
Use ‘em if you like em’. Just don’t forget to raise them!
0 flap on hard surfaces, 1/2 (manual flaps) on soft/short field. Works a charm in my RV-6.
Full flaps on all landings (unless I’m practicing no flap landings which I do regularly).
While I also practice go-arounds, I *have* forgotten (once) to raise the flaps on a go-around. As it happens I was tired, heavy, at at a DA >6000’ and left the full flaps in while climbing out. With “only” 150hp and a fixed pitch prop, it was pretty obvious pretty quickly *something* was wrong (different). Took me a 20 sec or so to figure it out in my fatigued condition. Still far better climb rate than the 152 I trained in, but just didn’t accelerate to the usual speeds … until I got the handle down. Now I plan to practice some full flap TOs, just so I can recognize (what would be an error) more quickly.
Peter
0 flap on hard surfaces, 1/2 (manual flaps) on soft/short field. Works a charm in my RV-6.
Full flaps on all landings (unless I’m practicing no flap landings which I do regularly).
While I also practice go-arounds, I *have* forgotten (once) to raise the flaps on a go-around. As it happens I was tired, heavy, at at a DA >6000’ and left the full flaps in while climbing out. With “only” 150hp and a fixed pitch prop, it was pretty obvious pretty quickly *something* was wrong (different). Took me a 20 sec or so to figure it out in my fatigued condition. Still far better climb rate than the 152 I trained in, but just didn’t accelerate to the usual speeds … until I got the handle down. Now I plan to practice some full flap TOs, just so I can recognize (what would be an error) more quickly.
Peter