I have owned both. THEY ARE NOT
CERTIFICATED AIRPLANES. Do what you feel is comfortable. How does your
airplane perform at these airspeeds? How good of a pilot are you? How safe do
you think being slow is? Look at the number of gear collapses on landings.
These are the guys that think slow is better.
From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of MikeEasley@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005
4:10 PM
To: Lancair
Mailing List
Subject: [LML] Re: airspeed on
final
If you do the math on a IV, you get 83-85
knots for a final approach speed. 100 knots down final is 1.5 VSO!
Lancair lists the landing roll for a IV
at 900 feet. Is that with a "standard approach" or with the 100
knot approach speed. I doubt you could get a IV stopped in 900 feet with
a 100 knot approach, even if you touched down at 85-90 knots.
So the question is, do IV's really have a
dirty stall of 65-67 knots, 73-75 mph?
Do Legacy's really have a dirty stall of
58 knots, 67 mph?
What do some of the Legacy and IV owners
report as their observed dirty stall?