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Now I'm scarred. With my lowly 220 hrs TT (don't have my complex/hi performance finished yet), building a Lancair 360.
Marcelo Pacheco
The fellow that built my plane(Kevin) had only 100 hours TT when he started flying it. He owned the completed plane for 6 years and flew it for a total of about 250 hours with no problems. He flew the Lancair 320 just fine.
I had 1,500 hours when I purchased the plane in Carson City, NV. I have ASMEL, ASES, Instrument and Commercial ratings. I owned a Comanche for 3 years and flew it for 900 hours. Don Goetz flew with me for a day and said that I needed more training. I went back to Redding, OR with Don and stayed for 3 days. At the end of the 3 days, I was pretty sure that I would walk away from a landing accident but I wasn't so sure about the plane. It took me a full year and over 100 hours to start feeling comfortable with the landings. I am still learning a lot on every landing. My 320 has the short mount and small tail. I have put on Ong's Debongers and they have saved many bad landings.
I can now fly as well as Keven, the original builder, after 400 hours in the plane and 2,000 hrs TT. I believe that I had developed many bad habits from flying slow airplanes that settle to the ground, instead of falling, when they are done flying. My point is that TT doesn't make that much of a difference. Learn to fly the plane on to the ground. This will work with any plane from a Cessna 150 to a Citation X.
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Lorn H. 'Feathers' Olsen, DynaComm, Corp.
248-478-4301, mailto:lorn@dynacomm.ws
LNC2, O-320, N31161, Y47, SE Michigan
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