It seems to me that we have all been scared to death by the admonishments to never stall these planes. As a result, nobody = does any stall testing or training. We will die if we stall the = plane! Only do stalls above 10000 feet because you will not be able to recover prior to impact!

If this stuff is true, then it is not a judgement or training = issue. A plane that is too dangerous to stall is too dangerous to fly. A = pilot needs to be able to recognize an impending stall in any plane he is flying. If we are scared to stall these Lancairs, we will = eventually stall close to the ground and become a “training = issue”.

I am not yet flying my Legacy, but you can be damn well certain = that stalls will be part of the second flight! The first flight will be = one circuit, land, get out and kiss the ground!

The other problem I think is flight into ice. There have = been several planes that have suddenly fallen out of the sky. I suspect = that is ice. I don’t have thousands of hours, but so far, I have = never encountered ice in any plane I have ever flown. I don’t plan = to change that with my Legacy.

Bill B

From: Lancair Mailing List = [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of marv@lancair.net
Sent: Friday, October 09, = 2009 10:09 AM
To: lml
Subject: [LML] Re: FAA = RESCINDS INFO LETTER

Posted for "Bruce Gray" = <Bruce@Glasair.org>:

Does this mean the information is wrong or someone applied = political
pressure?

Bruce
www.Glasair.org

[It probably just means that the common sense applied by our anonymous = LOBO person must have sunken in... hardly any accidents have been caused by = airframe failures... in other words, it's not the airplane's fault, it's a = training and piloting issue. Remember many years ago when they called the Bonanza the "doctor killer"? Same principal... = lack of training, poor judgment, just because you're good at one thing doesn't automatically make you good at (and prepared for the challenges of) = everything else. <Marv> ]

-----Original Message-----
From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of
Tom McNerney
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 10:08 PM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] FAA RESCINDS INFO LETTER

See link:
http://www.eaa.org/news/2009/2009-10-08_lancair.asp

Tom

--
For archives and unsub
http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/lml/List.html

--

For =
archives and unsub =
http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/lml/List.html