Just had a comment and question regarding the gentleman that cartwheeled
on take off because he ran out of airspeed on take off. I had asked the
question; why did the wing drop when the europa stalled? The answer was
that a wing dropping during a maximum power take off is what would be
expected. I have done lots of departure stalls in several different
aircraft, and not had the wing drop if I kept the ball centered. I know
that some aircraft have a tendency to drop a wing in a stall no matter
what you do. Is the Europa one of those?
Bob
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> From: Fillinger@aol.com[SMTP:Fillinger@aol.com]
> Subject: Re: Length of strip.
>
> On 2/5 Mark Talbot wrote --
>
> >> How long a strip? That is the question!! I can only say the longer
> the
> better.
>
> I have 1100 hours now, mostly in an AA-5 Traveler that's no homesick
> angel on
> the takeoff run (cruise prop). I used to fly out of short strips, and
> IFR
> even in icing conditions, but don't anymore. I believe in having
> margins now,
> ever since I was on an air carrier MD-80 that left important pieces of
> its
> port side engine on the runway right at rotation. It had the power on
> one
> engine to continue climbout, make a circuit to a missed approach
> (night, 300
> and 3/4 in rain, sleet, and fog), climb out for another try at the
> ILS. Made
> it down second time, and used all of 9200 feet of slick runway to stop
> with
> 1/2 thrust reverse (blew a main tire in the process). Excellent skill
> on the
> part of those pilots.
>
> All machinery is fallible.
>
> Sorry to hear about your unfortunate incident; heartened to hear you
> like the
> Europa enough to go for another!
>
> Regards
>
> Fred Fillinger
> A063 Tri-gear (working on fuselage)
>
>
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