>Tony Krzyzewski wrote.........
>"in the last stage of flare adding roughly
>1/3 throttle resulted in a dramatic reduction in the roll distance."
>I must be missing something here. My experience (70 hrs) in my trigear
>demonstrates that the Europa wants to float down the runway. Adding power
>only seems to exacerbate the problem, ie: extending the float further.
>Have I misunderstood some technique?
I was a bit puzzled too, however, provided airspeed is low enough, which of
course means less and less margin for error, the extra power compensates
for the vertical momentum reduction needed for a good round out and simply
prevents a hard arrival. As Tony says, "only for very skilled pilots".
If the airplane floats on landing you are just a bit too fast and need to
wait for speed to decay, which takes longer in ground effect.
Graham
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