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Porpoising a Mooney


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Keep in mind that coming in too fast isn't the only way to get a really good bounce.  Come in too slowly, and you won't be able to counteract the sink in the flair.  Those rubber donuts will return all that downward energy and reward you with a lovely bounce.  Easily recovered, but no fun nonetheless.

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Humans have the ability to FUBAR any task.  Have you seen some of the attempts to extricate from or into a parking spot?  Add in another dimension and Mooney pucks and let the fun begin.  EVERYONE has bounced their Mooney, but hey if you were alone and nobody but Nobody witnessed it....Didn’t happen.  No prangs, no foul.  Carry on.

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12 hours ago, EricJ said:

Oddly enough, slip angles on tires during racing are similar to angle of attack on an airfoil, enough so that if the car is pushing out on a corner when the front tires are on the back side of the slip angle curve (i.e., too much angle of attack), you can *increase* the rate of turn by decreasing the input angle of the steering wheel.   Like dropping the nose to fly higher, it is initially counter-intuitive.   I love stuff like that.

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Another good way to waste a couple AMU's... B)

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16 minutes ago, jaylw314 said:

Isn't that an excessively wordy way of saying TLAR (that looks about right)? ;)

You can write a program for what's constant and repeatable.   Winds are rarely repeatable.  Learn to fly the plane to the conditions presented at the time.

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