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Lynn,
My only objection here is
the cavalier disregard for limitations. Your plane is an exception in that
it was specifically modified to race, as was Greenameyer's and the IV that
Lancair raced in the early Sport Class races in Reno (at least the engine
was). Your mods make your plane safe to fly at those speeds and you have
established a higher Vne that you respect. That's the smart way
to do it. The vast majority of the Lancairs flying don't have the
airframe mods you have and their pilots, if they choose to fly past redline
IAS, have nothing upon which to base their own limiting airspeed. I
hope you're not suggesting that they're all as safe to fly as fast as you
do.
If our entire community decides that
limitations are just guidelines which can be ignored, we deserve all the bad
press we've been getting. If you ignore Vne, why not ignore an RMP limit,
G limit or any other limitation you find too restrictive? It's an attitude
we shouldn't be fostering, particularly in a public forum such as the
LML.
If Joe B. thinks Lancair Vne's are too low,
why doesn't he raise them? If the factory endorses the raising of limits
based upon their own research and flight testing, I have no problem with
that. However if you, Randy or any other
Lancair drivers right up to Joe instead advocate the disregard of the
current published limitations, I personally think that's an unwise choice.
I've been a professional pilot since I left college and I wasn't
trained to think that way and strongly discourage the
practice.
Why don't we just leave it at
that.
Regards,
Skip
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