X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 08:20:01 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from bay0-omc3-s23.bay0.hotmail.com ([65.54.190.161] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.0.5) with ESMTP id 6297230 for lml@lancaironline.net; Wed, 29 May 2013 23:10:19 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=65.54.190.161; envelope-from=peterpawaviation@hotmail.com Received: from BAY152-W40 ([65.54.190.188]) by bay0-omc3-s23.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Wed, 29 May 2013 20:09:47 -0700 X-TMN: [mP9VzT05ZH6/P57jBH9xwqiPdKhxibV/] X-Originating-Email: [peterpawaviation@hotmail.com] X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: peterpawaviation@hotmail.com Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_05e8b30d-629d-46e0-8664-100862626a0d_" From: PETER WILLIAMS X-Original-To: "lml@lancaironline.net" Subject: thoughts on ownership of a Lancair 4P X-Original-Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 23:09:46 -0400 Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 May 2013 03:09:47.0022 (UTC) FILETIME=[23EA6AE0:01CE5CE3] --_05e8b30d-629d-46e0-8664-100862626a0d_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hi there Just some thoughts on flying a 4P. FIFTY HOURS TO THE COMFORT ZONE=20 i have 3700 hours=2C most of which were in Cessna 310 & Cessna 340. Well=2C= i thought "ah=2C a piece of cake=3B the landing numbers and pattern speeds= are similar" well=2C a Lancair 4P transition was a humbling experience. So much diffe= rent=2C So much changed. I spent six days in training=3B partially due to weather and partially due = to reality. i now have 90 hours in type in the first eight months of the airplane.=20 We are now friends=3B we tend to go the same place and in the same way at t= he same time. it was past 50 hours before the airplane were in the comfort= zone together. I do not take the airplane for granted=3B i have even great= er respect for this bird. i fly 125-200 hours a year. now being faster will not reduce my flying time= because i will be using the speed more often. the speed is seductive. to anyone out there. start slowly with a Homebuilt=3B guaranteed there will= be quirks to the build=3B guaranteed that there will be things that need a= djusting. i purchased my plane from someone who had never flow IFR=2C at night or wit= h four people in the plane. and then only about 150 hours in five years of = flying. ANNUAL FLYING to stay current and "at peace" with the 4P i would not want to fly less tha= n about 80 hours a year. this is a demanding airplane. transition would be = a lot easier if we trained and previously regularly flew similar airplanes= . but we don't. especially the stall characturistics. I had Len Fox test the airplane befor= e i flew it. the post stall rotation is approximately 110 degrees in eithe= r direction. not tame=3B but if every plane we flew=2C had those characturi= stics=2C we would be used to it=2C BUT=2C they do not and we are not. IN CONCLUSION My lady summed it up=2C when looking at her first Lancair 4=2C she said "Ho= trod" then she asked me about the safety record=3B my answer: "Terrible" and then i said "Very Fast" and in many ways that sums up the Lancair 4 & 4P peter williams = --_05e8b30d-629d-46e0-8664-100862626a0d_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

hi there

Just some though= ts on flying a 4P.

FIFTY HOURS TO THE COMFORT ZONE
i have 3700 h= ours=2C most of which were in Cessna 310 &=3B Cessna 340. Well=2C i thou= ght "ah=2C a piece of cake=3B the landing numbers and pattern speeds are si= milar"
=3B well=2C =3B a Lancair 4P transition was a humbling e= xperience. So much different=2C So much changed.
I spent six days in tra= ining=3B partially due to weather and partially due to reality.
i now ha= ve 90 hours in type in the first eight months of the airplane.
We are n= ow friends=3B we tend to go the same place and in the same way at the same = time. =3B it was past 50 hours before the airplane were in the comfort = zone together. I do not take the airplane for granted=3B i have even greate= r respect for this bird.

i fly 125-200 hours a year. now being faste= r will not reduce my flying time because i will be using the speed more oft= en.

=3B =3B =3B =3B =3B =3B =3B =3B= =3B =3B =3B =3B =3B the speed is seductive.

to = anyone out there. start slowly with a Homebuilt=3B guaranteed there will be= quirks to the build=3B guaranteed that there will be things that need adju= sting.

i purchased my plane from someone who had never flow IFR=2C a= t night or with four people in the plane. and then only about 150 hours in = five years of flying.

ANNUAL FLYING
to stay current and "at peace= " with the 4P i would not want to fly less than about 80 hours a year. this= is a demanding airplane. transition would be a lot easier =3B if we tr= ained and previously regularly flew similar airplanes. but we don't.
especially the stall characturistics. I had Len Fox test the airplane befo= re i flew it. the post stall rotation =3B is approximately 110 degrees = in either direction. not tame=3B but if every plane we flew=2C had those ch= aracturistics=2C we would be used to it=2C BUT=2C they do not and we are no= t.

IN CONCLUSION
My lady summe= d it up=2C when looking at her first Lancair 4=2C she said "Hotrod"<= font style=3D"" color=3D"#AC193D">
=3B =3B =3B =3B then she asked me about the safety re= cord=3B my answer: "Terrible"
= and then i said "Very Fast"

and in many ways that sums up the Lancair 4 &=3B 4P

pete= r williams

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