Charles wrote in part,
"I need little braking when landing downhill and none when landing uphill, even if my flare wasn't everything it should have been."
I am very envious, Charles, because I have never been able to get any 200 or 300 series of Lancairs that I have flown to "flare". They stall, sink, mush or even drop a wing in ground effect but they will not truly flare nor will they hold the nose off the runway at all. Similarly, on my 360, holding the stick pulled aft while accelerating, the very moment the stall meter indicates adequate lift for gross-weight takeoff, the nose heads to the sky and the rest of the a/p follows without hesitation. In a C172, I could travel the entire runway with the nose held off and the mains
solidly pinned to the runway but the Lancair 360 will not do that at all; not even for a moment. Any attempt to flare on landing will cause either a climb at a dangerous attitude or else loss of lift in stall such as to slam the aircraft onto the runway. I'm not complaining because I, and perhaps most other Lancair 360 pilots, simply float the a/p and use the time in float to inch the plane towards the runway to achieve a "pretty" mostly 3-point landing.
My question to you is, Does the Legacy really flare? Can you hold the nose up and off for some time after the plane has touched? If so, this would indicate substantially greater elevator authority in the Legacy than in earlier models (Never have flown the Mark II). Even if true,... I still love my 360! Greg Nelson