Thanks

 

How is the doctor business down there?  I am an ortho spine surgeon- all I do is cervical spine.  Last year work RVU was up 15 percent and comp was down 20. Mostly because a lot more Medicare. Hope it isn’t the same in your neck of the woods.

 

Michael Smith

 

 

Mike:

 

When doing the initial flight testing with my IV-P with the 1” leading edge tape installed, the TAS at FL240 at 75% power ROP was 291kts—just  what the factory specs had anticipated without tape based upon testing on the original IV (409L). I could therefore not detect any significant slowing effect of the 1” tape. I never did fly without it on mine, however, so have no direct comparisons.

 

When putting it on initially, I think we had about 40% above the plumb line leading edge, and about 60% below. DL and Brad Simmons made the call on that however, so you might want to ask them directly. I have just kept the same position on it ever since.

 

Good luck.

 

 

 

“I have 950TT on my IV and had to repaint the leading edges twice.  In fact I have 2 Vr- one for rotation on takeoff and one for in-flight rain- I slow to 160 KIAS for any significant rain.  The purpose of this post is that I am wondering if the tape slows the airplane down and if I wanted to put it on for the first time how do I align the tape”

 

Michael Smith